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  2. Bone fracture - Wikipedia

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    Since bone healing is a natural process that will occur most often, fracture treatment aims to ensure the best possible function of the injured part after healing. Bone fractures typically are treated by restoring the fractured pieces of bone to their natural positions (if necessary), and maintaining those positions while the bone heals.

  3. Clavicle fracture - Wikipedia

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    A clavicle fracture, also known as a broken collarbone, is a bone fracture of the clavicle. [1] Symptoms typically include pain at the site of the break and a decreased ability to move the affected arm. [1] Complications can include a collection of air in the pleural space surrounding the lung (pneumothorax), injury to the nerves or blood ...

  4. Fracture blister - Wikipedia

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    Fracture blisters are tense vesicles or bullae that arise on markedly swollen skin directly overlying a fracture. Fracture blisters pop up in trauma patients, but are relatively rare and only occur in 2.9% of patients with a fracture requiring hospitalization. [3] A fracture blister typically occurs near fractures where the skin has little ...

  5. Distal radius fracture - Wikipedia

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    Pain medication, elevation [1] Prognosis. Recovery over 1 to 2 years [1] Frequency. ≈33% of broken bones [2] A distal radius fracture, also known as wrist fracture, is a break of the part of the radius bone which is close to the wrist. [1] Symptoms include pain, bruising, and rapid-onset swelling. [1] The ulna bone may also be broken.

  6. Bone healing - Wikipedia

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    Bone healing. Bone healing of a fracture by forming a callus as shown by X-ray. Bone healing, or fracture healing, is a proliferative physiological process in which the body facilitates the repair of a bone fracture. Generally, bone fracture treatment consists of a doctor reducing (pushing) displaced bones back into place via relocation with or ...

  7. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    30 days. Wound healing refers to a living organism's replacement of destroyed or damaged tissue by newly produced tissue. [1] In undamaged skin, the epidermis (surface, epithelial layer) and dermis (deeper, connective layer) form a protective barrier against the external environment. When the barrier is broken, a regulated sequence of ...

  8. Sternal fracture - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms include crepitus (a crunching sound made when broken bone ends rub together), [1] pain, tenderness, bruising, and swelling over the fracture site. [4] The fracture may visibly move when the person breathes, and it may be bent or deformed, [4] potentially forming a "step" at the junction of the broken bone ends that is detectable by palpation. [3]

  9. Calcaneal fracture - Wikipedia

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    Calcaneal fracture. A calcaneal fracture is a break of the calcaneus (heel bone). [1] Symptoms may include pain, bruising, trouble walking, and deformity of the heel. [1] It may be associated with breaks of the hip or back.