Compound Fracture Spine

In some serious traumatic fractures called burst fractures the compression occurs around the spinal cord and nerves.

Compound fracture spine. A compression fracture of the back occurs when the bones of your spine vertebrae collapse. But most spinal compression fractures happen because of osteoporosis. Compound fracture of the spine. For many people a spinal compression fracture will hurt less as the bone heals.

Nerve complaints are unusual in compression fractures because the spine and its nerves are behind the vertebra and as mentioned above the front of the vertebra is compressed and the back remains normal. Nerves may be involved in degenerative and traumatic compression fractures due to the closeness of the nerve roots and the spinal cord. A spinal fracture due to osteoporosis weak bones is commonly referred to as a compression fracture but can also be called a vertebral fracture osteoporotic fracture or wedge fracture. Such a fracture is infected and requires different management from a non compound simple fracture.

What are the signs of a compound fracture. Other people will still have. White and asian women have the greatest risk. This can lead to poor posture pain loss of height and a variety of other symptoms.

The term wedge fracture is used because the fracture usually occurs in the front of the vertebra collapsing the bone in the front of the spine and leaving the back of the same bone unchanged. 40 years experience podiatry. Different signs of spinal compression fractures. Patients with compound compression fractures usually have a bent over posture as the vertebrae bears their weight at the front resulting in compression at the front and retain the same shape at the back.

Compound fracture a bone break with perforation of the skin so that the fracture site has been in contact however briefly with the outside environment or the surface of the skin. Some people have a higher chance of getting the disease because of.