{"id":174,"date":"2024-11-15T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/chapter\/bone-fracture-signs-symptoms-and-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T16:01:16","slug":"bone-fracture-signs-symptoms-and-treatment","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/chapter\/bone-fracture-signs-symptoms-and-treatment\/","title":{"raw":"Bone Fracture - Signs and Symptoms","rendered":"Bone Fracture &#8211; Signs and Symptoms"},"content":{"raw":"\n\n<strong>Signs and symptoms<\/strong> of bone fractures can include:\n\nNumbness, pain, deformity, swelling, muscle spasms, tenderness, tingling, numbness, impaired sensation, decreased mobility, external bleeding (in open fractures), fracture blisters, and clicking in transchondral fractures.\n\nA grating sound termed <strong>crepitus<\/strong> may be present if the bone ends move over each other.\n\nBone fractures may be accompanied by the signs and symptoms of <strong>shock<\/strong> which include:&nbsp; pallor, diaphoresis (excess sweating), hypotension, tachycardia, nausea and vomiting.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*<strong>Transchondral fractures<\/strong> involve a separation of the cartilaginous joint surface (articular cartilage) from the main shaft of the bone.&nbsp; Transchondral fractures can penetrate into the subchondral trabeculae of the fractured bone and may involve an avulsion of an osteocartilaginous flake.&nbsp; Transchondral fractures ccur most frequently in teenagers at the distal femur, ankle, patella, elbow, and wrist. &nbsp;These injuries are accompanied by pain, swelling, weakness, instability, stiffness, possibly locking of the joint, and\/or instability.\n\n","rendered":"<p><strong>Signs and symptoms<\/strong> of bone fractures can include:<\/p>\n<p>Numbness, pain, deformity, swelling, muscle spasms, tenderness, tingling, numbness, impaired sensation, decreased mobility, external bleeding (in open fractures), fracture blisters, and clicking in transchondral fractures.<\/p>\n<p>A grating sound termed <strong>crepitus<\/strong> may be present if the bone ends move over each other.<\/p>\n<p>Bone fractures may be accompanied by the signs and symptoms of <strong>shock<\/strong> which include:&nbsp; pallor, diaphoresis (excess sweating), hypotension, tachycardia, nausea and vomiting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Transchondral fractures<\/strong> involve a separation of the cartilaginous joint surface (articular cartilage) from the main shaft of the bone.&nbsp; Transchondral fractures can penetrate into the subchondral trabeculae of the fractured bone and may involve an avulsion of an osteocartilaginous flake.&nbsp; Transchondral fractures ccur most frequently in teenagers at the distal femur, ankle, patella, elbow, and wrist. &nbsp;These injuries are accompanied by pain, swelling, weakness, instability, stiffness, possibly locking of the joint, and\/or instability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1076,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["zoe-soon-rb1w4eok44"],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-nc-sa"},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[214],"license":[57],"class_list":["post-174","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-zoe-soon-rb1w4eok44","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"part":163,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/174\/revisions"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/163"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/174\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/zoesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}