Types of Bone Fractures: What You Need to Know: By Shreoshree Chakrabarty Bone fractures are common injuries affecting people of all ages, often caused by falls, accidents, or sports. A bone fracture ...

A skull fracture is any break in the cranial bone (skull). Most heal without intervention, but if there’s brain damage or surgery was needed, recovery can take weeks or months. There are many types of ...

Traumatic fracture- This type of fracture is due to trauma like direct blow, fall or road traffic accident. Pathological fracture- Fracture in a weak bone due to underlying diseases like osteoporosis ...

A Salter-Harris fracture is an injury to the growth plate area of a child’s bone. The growth plate is a soft area of cartilage at the ends of long bones. These are bones that are longer than they are ...

Any kind of fracture was predictive of more fractures in postmenopausal women, new data suggested. In a prospective, observational study of over 66,000 women from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), ...

The fibula is the longest, thinnest calf bone in your lower leg. Of your two lower leg bones, your fibula is closest to the outside of your body. When you break this bone, it's called a fibular ...

Tibia fracture can be common and is usually caused by an injury or repetitive strain on the bone. The recovery and healing time for tibia fracture differs and depends on the type and severity of the ...

A blowout fracture is a break in one of the bones surrounding the eye area. The orbit is the concave compartment that protects the eye and holds it in place. If a person takes a blow to the eye area, ...

A Salter-Harris fracture is a fracture in the growth plate of a child’s bone. A growth plate is a layer of growing tissue close to the ends of a child’s bone. Growth plates are fragile portions of the ...