Unit 8 Bones And Soft Tissue Flashcards
(27 cards)
Osteoblasts
Build bone
Osteoclast
Breaks down bone
Osteocytes
(Cell within the bone)
Keeps bone healthy
Collagen
Gives it flexible strength (so it can bend)
Calcium phosphate crystals
Gives it regitity (strength)
Endochondral ossification
The process of turning cartilage into bone
Stimulates the production of new blood vessels into healing bone tissue
Histamines
Open/ compound
Bone breaks and sticks through skin
Complete V incomplete (greenstick)
Incomplete= not all the way through usually only in children
Transverse fracture
Break forms a right angle with the axis of the bone (straight across break)
Oblique fracture
Line of break runs at a slanted angle (but breaks all the way through)
Avulsion fracture
Tendon or ligament pulls a small chip of bone away from the rest of the bone
Impacted fracture
When the narrow part of bone is pushed up into the wide part of the bone
Depression fracture
Caves in
Comminuted fracture
Breaks into 3+ pieces
When describing long bone don’t forget to put
angulation (valgus, radial, dorsal, etc.) if bone touching a little
Displacement: (medial/ lateral, if bone is not touching at all)
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Signs of Fx (5)
- swelling
- pain
- deformity
- point tenderness
- discoloration
*super painful at first then is just full aching pain
Treatment of fracture
- it will remodel itself
- rest
- Reduction (put bone in proper position)
- cast/taping
- internal fixation (surgery)
Healing:
- Nonunion
- Malunion
- Nonunion (non-healing): pieces not close enough so they form 2 bones
- Malunion: it has healed but the bony calius has made it into 1 bone
Abrasion
Skin rubs against hard surface
Laceration
You wack something hard and it cuts you too (irregular or jagged break in your skin, lots of bleeding, usually from machinery or tools)
Avulsion
A chunk of your skin gets taken out
Puncture
A hole in your body
Contusion
Bleeding between each cell