Adult UE: Fractures Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update
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● Non-Displaced Fracture:
fracture where the periosteum remains intact
○ Initiation of AROM depends on injury & client but typically begins between third to
sixth weeks after immobilization
○ By 8-10 weeks after injury, most clients can begin progressive resistive exercises
and le...
Adult UE: Fractures Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update
● Non-Displaced Fracture:
✓ fracture where the periosteum remains intact
✓
✓ ○ Initiation of AROM depends on injury & client but typically begins between third to
sixth weeks after immobilization
✓ ○ By 8-10 weeks after injury, most clients can begin progressive resistive exercises
and leisure or homemaking tasks using the involved extremity
Displaced fracture
✓ ○ Physician required to use reduction: normally realign bone fragments
● Soft tissue injuries commonly associated with wrist fractures:
✓ ○ Minimally displaced Intra-articular Fracture
✓ ■ Occur when fractured bone segments shifts and crosses into joint space
✓ ■ Results in greater soft tissue damage
✓ ■ Requires some type of reduction
✓ ■ Chauffeur's fracture falls under this category
✓
✓
✓ ○ Comminuted extra-articular fracture
✓ ■ High-energy injury
✓ ■ Bone breaks in multiple segments
✓ ■ Unstable
Colles fracture
✓ most common
✓ --complete fracture of the distal radius with dorsal displacement of the distal
fragment and radius shortening
✓
✓ --usually extra-articular, minimially displaced, and stable
smith's fracture
✓ complete fracture of distal radius with volar displacement of distal fragement
✓
✓ second most common
✓ frequently unstable and requires internal fixation
nonunion
✓ fracture did not heal despite adequate time and immobilization
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