Injury Assessment and Fractures

Which of the following would be a clear sign of a fracture?

• Deformity

• Pain

• Instability

• Swelling

Which of the following is not classified as a soft tissue injury?

• An abrasion

• A blister

• A strain

• Broken tooth

Stress fractures are

• Hard tissue

• Soft tissue

• Direct

• Overuse

A female patient is brought to the emergency room with an injury to her lower leg from an ATV accident. You notice a white tip of a bone protruding through the skin as you cut her pant leg off. Her injury is described as what kind of fracture.

• Comminuted

• Pathologic

• Compound

• Stress

• compression
• simple
• compound
• spiral

 a fracture in which the bone breaks diagonally. 

• Oblique Fracture
• Fracture
• Diagonal Fracture
• Horizontal Fracture 

Bone breaks into many fragments.

• Shattered Fracture
• Traction Fracture 
• Comminuted Fracture
• The Magic School Bus

Bone breaks incompletely, occurs most commonly during the infantile stages of life.

• Greenstick Fracture
• Stable Fracture
• Bluestick Fracture
• Comminuted Fracture 

Tissue that connects bone to bone

• Ligament
• Tendon
• Cartilage
• Muscle

The diagram shows a fracture that has two bones crushing into each other. What type of fracture is this?

• Simple

• Compound

• Impacted

• Comminuted