Fracture Repair Process
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Lya Böger
Fracture repair process
Causes of Fractures
The stages of fracture healing
causes of fractures
- Bones are very strong
- Bone runs into stronger force (e.g. thrown forward in car crash), which leads to a traumatic fracture
- Bone runs into repetitive force (e.g. running), which leads to a stress fracture
- Bone diseases, which weaken your bones (e.g. osteoporosis) and leads to a spontaneous/pathologic fracture
Why do bones break?
the stages of bone healing
- Also called Hematoma Formation
- Starts immediately after the fraction occurs
- blood vessels that were torn by the fracture release blood (about 48 hours after injury)
- blood clots and forms fracture Hematoma
- Immune system gets active (kills germs and gets rid of small bone pieces)
- stage ends approximately 1 week after injury
1. The inflammatory phase
Bone callus
- Starts a few days after bone fracture
- Lasts for about 2-3 weeks
- Body develops cartilage and tissue in/around fracture site
- Cartilage forms a soft collar at broken ends (replaces blood clot)
- Cartilage parts eventually meet each other and form a callus (stabalize structure)
- Osteoblasts from the periosteum invade hematoma
- Trabecular bone (spongy bone) replaces tissue and forms a bony callus over the next weeks
2. The repairing phase
- Final phase in fracture repair process
- Osteoblasts form new bone
- Solid bone replaces the spongy bone
- After completion, osteoclasts remove excessive bone tissue and restore bone shape
3. The bone remodeling phase
- Average healing time is 6 to 8 weeks
- Time varies from person to person and depends on severity of injury and bone (some bones heal faster than others)
- Doctors can support healing process (casts, screws & plates, rods, wires, nails)
How long does a fracture take to heal?
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/fracture-1?lang=us
https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/ss/slideshow-break-bone-what-happens
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15241-bone-fractures
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322419#three-stages-of-bone-healing
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