By Richard Birrer MD FAAFP FACSM, Robert L. Kalb MD
Organized via physique area and fracture style, this useful source covers the complete spectrum of themes with regards to powerful fracture management—from crucial medical tips on casting and splinting ideas and dealing with issues to chapters on education, case choice, and coverage issues.
Clear a route to potent fracture management!
- Standardized bankruptcy format encompasses a "how-to" define that can assist you find key proof easily.
- Useful illustrations, tables, and figures provide very important visible suggestions within the powerful therapy of straightforward and complicated fractures.
- Practical, how-to approach indicates you what works, what does not, and why.
- Pediatric content assists the family members practitioner in treating adolescence fractures.
- Tips on fending off pitfalls assist you optimize results.
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These are serious injuries that can lead to functional impairment if not treated properly. Fractures can involve the medial or lateral plateau, or both. The goal is to maintain articular congruity, joint stability, and normal mechanical axis. This fracture is common in younger males due to high-energy trauma and in older osteoporotic females due to low-energy trauma. Mechanism of Injury Fracture of the tibial plateau occurs as a result of strong valgus or varus forces combined with axial loading.
PATELLAR FRACTURES WHEN TO REFER Open or displaced fractures require surgery. Referral to an orthopedist is needed if the patient is not progressing well with rehabilitation or if the fracture displaces while being treated in the cast. COMPLICATIONS Patellar fractures usually heal uneventfully. Possible complications include decreased range of motion, stiffness, fracture malunion, nonunion, and posttraumatic arthritis. fm Page 45 Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:24 AM Chapter 8 FIBULAR FRACTURES Manish K.
Most occur in elderly osteoporotic patients with minor flexion injury. Diagnosis There should be a suspicion of an injury to the spinal column based on the mechanism of injury. The patient may complain of mid-back pain. fm Page 21 Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:16 AM 4. SPINE FRACTURES 21 ecchymoses may be present over the spine. Exquisite tenderness over the spinous process may represent a flexion-distraction injury with posterior ligamentous disruption. With thoracic spine injuries, the intercostal nerves traveling beneath each rib may be damaged, causing radicular pain.