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What is closed or nondisplaced fracture?
Calcaneal fractures, also known as Lover's fracture and Don Juan fracture, are a fracture of the calcaneus or heel. A Nondisplaced calcaneus fracture is a stable fracture where the broken ends of the bones meet up correctly and are aligned.
What is involved in fracture repair?
Fracture repair is the process of rejoining and realigning the ends of broken bones, usually performed by an orthopedist, general surgeon, or family doctor.
What is the function of hyaline that covers the articulating surface?
absorbs any compression placed on the joint, reduces friction between bones, and prevents the ends of the bones from being crushed
What is a fracture dislocation?
Normally your bones are kept together at the ends by muscles and joints. If you get injured you might dislocate a shoulder, meaning that your two bones meeting at a joint get slightly separated. As a result your shoulder looks crazy, it hurts and you can barely move it.A dislocation is when a joint comes out of the space that is is supposed to occupy, like a dislocated shoulder or hip.
In the knee the ends of the leg bone are held together by?
Ligaments always hold bones to bones while tendons only hold muscles to bones.
What is an undisplaced fracture?
it is a fracture in which the two ends of the broken bone are separated from one another
A fracture in which the bone ends penetrate?
Compound.
How many bones make up in babies body?
Babies are born with around 270 bones, but some of these bones fuse together as the baby grows, so the average adult ends up with 206 bones.
Why do bones have grooves at their ends?
It gives the cartillage and tissue and muscle all a place to join together, with the joint in middle
What ends of the bones?
Cartilage covers the ends of bones at joints, while a ligament is the tissue that connects two bones to form a joint.
Broken ends are pushed into each other?
Impacted fracture
What is the medical term meaning putting the broken ends of a fracture into aligment without the need of exposing the fractured bone by surgery?
Closed reduction is the medical term meaning aligning broken bones without surgery.
