5. COLLES FRACTURE
(COL-eez)
A Colles wrist fracture is a break in
your forearm just behind your wrist. It is
caused by falling forward onto an
outstretched arm snapping the end of
the radial forearm bone. The break itself
itself is sometimes called a 'dinner fork'
fracture because it resembles the curve
of a fork A.
6. COMMINUTED FRACTURE
(kom-ih-NYOOT-ed)
Fracture in which bone can be:
shattered
splitered
or crushed into many small piees or fragments
7. COMPRESSION FRACTURE
A compression fracture is
a fracture where the height
of the body is shortened
due to trauma. In older
people, mainly women,
such fractures are mostly a
result of osteoporosis.
