Healing time varies from person to person with the elderly generally needing more time to heal completely. Realignment has been shown to be much more difficult after six hours. If determined necessary by a physician, the fractured site should be manipulated, realigned, and immobilized as soon as possible. Fractures can normally be cured with proper first aid and appropriate aftercare. Causes and symptomsįractures involving joint surfaces almost always lead to some degree of arthritis of the joint. An example of segmental alignment is when the arm bone fractures in two separate places, with displacement of the middle section of bone. Segmental fragmented positioning occurs if fractures in two adjacent areas occur, leaving an isolated central segment. An avulsed fragment occurs when bone fragments are pulled from their normal position by forceful muscle contractions or resistance from ligaments. A displaced bony fragment occurs from disruption of normal bone alignment with deformity of these segments separate from one another. Angulated fragments result in pieces of bone being at angles to each other. Overriding is a term used to describe bony fragments that overlap and shorten the total length of a bone. An impacted fracture is characterized as a bone fragment forced into or onto another fragment resulting from a compressive force. Fragments of bone that maintain their normal alignment following a fracture are described as being non-displaced.
Comminuted fractures have two or more fragments broken into small pieces, in addition to the upper and lower halves of a fractured bone.
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