What are the common types of fractures?

Common types of fractures include:

  • Stable fracture. The broken ends of the bone line up and are barely out of place.
  • Open (compound) fracture. The skin may be pierced by the bone or by a blow that breaks the skin at the time of the fracture.
  • Transverse fracture.
  • Oblique fracture.
  • Comminuted fracture.

What are the 5 most common fractures?

Here are five common types of fractures:

  • Open (compound) fracture.
  • Stress fracture.
  • Comminuted fracture.
  • Greenstick fracture.
  • Compression fracture.

What is the most common fracture?

The collarbone, otherwise known as the clavicle, is the most commonly broken bone, thanks in large part to where it’s positioned. Located between the shoulder blade and upper ribcage, it attaches the arm to the rest of the body.

What are the six types of bone fractures?

Six Types of Fractures

  • Stable fracture. The best way to describe a stable fracture is to think of it as a clean break.
  • Oblique fracture. If the break in your bone is at an angle, we call it an oblique fracture.
  • Open fracture.
  • Comminuted fracture.
  • Intra-articular fracture.
  • Spiral fracture.

What are the three types of bone fractures?

However, there are different types of fractures that can all be classified into three main categories including a simple bone fracture, a comminuted fracture, and an open fracture.

What are the different types of traumatic fractures?

Below is a listing of the common types that may occur: Greenstick – Incomplete fracture. Transverse – The break is in a straight line across the bone. Spiral – The break spirals around the bone; common in a twisting injury. Oblique – Diagonal break across the bone. Compression – The bone is crushed, causing the broken bone to be wider or flatter in appearance.

What is the most common bone fracture?

In fact clavicle is the most commonly fractured bone in the human body. The most common reason of fracture is a fall on the shoulder or outstretched hand. The weakest point of the clavicle where it gets fractured most easily is the junction of the convex medial 2/3 and concave lateral 1/3.

What is a Type 3 fracture?

A type III fracture (see the images below) is a fracture through the physis and epiphysis. This fracture passes through the hypertrophic layer of the physis and extends to split the epiphysis, inevitably damaging the reproductive layer of the physis.