Broken Bones

So the question many people tend to ask, what is the difference between a broken bone and a fracture? Well to answer that question, a fracture is the medical term for a broken bone.
Regardless to cause of the broken bone, there are two major classes that they are sorted into; simple fracture, compound fracture, comminuted fracture, greenstick fracture, transverse fraction, oblique fracture, spiral fracture,
A simple fracture also known as closed fractures are broken bones that stay in the body and do not break skin.
A compound fracture also know as open fracture are broken bones that break through the skin and expose the bone and deep tissue to the outer environment.
A comminuted fracture is a severe fracture that involves the breaking of a bone into several smaller pieces.
A greenstick fracture is a break in bones along only one side of the bone caused by a force perpendicular to the bones long axis. Usually only seen in small children.
A transverse fracture form perpendicular to the long axis of a bone and are the result of a force applied at a right angle to the bone.
A oblique fracture slanted fractures that occur when a force is applies at any angle other than a right angle to the bone.
A spiral fracture is the result of an extreme twisting force being exerted on a bone.
There are many ways that a fracture can be determined, usually the doctor can examine and get x-rays done and have a correct diagnosis. Although that does not necessarily happen all the time, sometimes the x-ray will not show the fracture. The doctor then can perform the other tests such as computed tomography (CT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or bone scan. Sometimes even after the fracture diagnosis has been determined, other tests such as CT scan, MRI, angiogram, or x-ray of the blood vessels to know whether or not other tissues around the bone have been damaged.
A computed tomography is an x-ray procedure that combines many x-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross sectional views.
An X-Ray is a photograph or digital image of the internal composition of something.
A magnetic resonance imaging is a form of medical imaging that measures the response of the atomic nuclei of the body tissues of high frequency radio waves when placed in a strong magnetic field.
A bone scan is a imaging test that uses a very small amount of radioactive to find or monitor cancer that started in the bones.