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| Compression-(vertebral fracture, osteoporotic fracture, or wedge fracture |
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| A broken bone that can cause your vertebrae to collapse and make them shorter. |
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| Depression-(impacted fracture, skull fracture) |
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| A break in the cranial bone with depression of the bone toward the brain. |
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| Impacted (buckle fracture) |
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| A break where the ends are driven into each other is seen in children's arms |
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| Comminuted-(compound fracture) |
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| A comminuted fracture is a type of bone broken into more than 2 parts |
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| Greenstick-(partial fracture) |
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| Can make the bone bend or crack |
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| Spiral-(torsion fracture) |
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| Happens when you break your bone in a twisting motion. It can make a fracture line that wraps around your bone and looks like a corkscrew. |
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| Compression (real-life situation) |
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| Taking certain medicines for things like osteoarthritis can lead to premature osteoporosis, which will lead to vertebral compression fractures. So then your bones will be brittle and more likely to fracture. |
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| Depression (real-life situations) |
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| You get into an automobile accident and BOOM you hit your head on the window so hard it led to a depression fracture. |
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| Impacted (real-life situation) |
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| You are overusing your leg in football although it's swollen and in pain. You don't tell your coach and you take a big hit in the game and your bone breaks and is peaking out of your skin. |
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| comminuted (real-life situation) |
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You're playing on the top of the 12ft swing set and you suddenly fall off onto
the ground and land on your legs then cause trauma to a large bone which will then need surgery. |
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| Greenstick(real-life situation) |
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| You're playing volleyball and you dive to get the ball but you try and catch yourself with your hands and bend your arm and cause a greenstick fracture. |
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| Spiral(real-life situation) |
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| When you ski down a mountain and you fall but your legs bend in the skis while your feet stay in the boots twisting the legs. |
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| Rodeo events like bull riding |
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| overplaying your body in basketball |
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| any sport with high impact like basketball, football, rugby |
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| skiing your leg getting stuck in the boot and twisting and football |
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| https://ortho-surgeon.com/common-fractures-in-sports-first-aid-treatment/#:~:text=Fr |
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