Joints, Fractures Disorders

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

This is an incomplete bone break which occurs most commonly during the infant stages of life.

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

What kind of fracture is shown in the picture?

• Open or compound
• Closed or simple

Disease common to old white women; bones are brittle, holey and break easily

• osteoporosis

• rheumatoid arthritis

• osteomalacia

• greenstick gracture

Term for hunchback.

• scoliosis

• lordosis

• kyphosis

• lumbar vertebrae

Term for lateral twisting of the ribs and vertebrae.

• scoliosis

• lordosis

• kyphosis

• lumbar vertebrae

Joints hurt because of wear and tear. Usually happens to older people.

• osteoarthritis

• rheumatoid arthritis

• lupus

• rickets

Joints hurt because of inflammation. The body's immune system is attacking itself.

• osteoarthritis

• rheumatoid arthritis

• lupus

• rickets

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Inflammation of the plantar fascia on the sole of the foot

• Bone spurs

• Plantar fasciitis

• Osteoperosis

• Rheumatoid arthritis

Freely moving joints are

• amphiarthroses

• diarthroses

• synchondroses