The clavicle, also known as the collarbone, is the most common bone that is broken. It is located between the shoulder blade and upper ribcage.
Breaks of the lower leg (tibia and fibula) are the least common overall.
Flail Chest: Defined as at least two ribs broken in at least two places (each) this high force trauma injury occurs when a section of the rib-cage becomes broken away from the rest, and is able to move independently of the rest of the chest.
A boxer's fracture is a break in the neck of the 5th metacarpal bone in the hand. It usually happens when you punch an object at a high speed. Symptoms of a boxer's fracture include pain and swelling of the hand, limited range of motion of the pinky finger, and misalignment of the finger.
Transverse Fracture
This is when a bone breaks clean and straight across. This is one of the simplest types of broken bones and one of the easiest to correct and heal.
On average, every person will experience two broken bones over the course of a lifetime.
If a child has had two or more long bone fractures under the age of 10 years or three long bone fractures under the age of 19 years, this would be considered a significant history of multiple fractures.
1. Yes, the femur is stronger than concrete. Human bone tissue is extremely strong and one cubic inch of bone has four times the strength of the same size unit of concrete. This means that a concrete cast of the femur will not equal the strength of a bone femur that still living tissue within the human body.
The femur is the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the human body.
Broken bones usually heal and get strong again, but not always. When broken bones don't heal back together it is call non-union, and that can cause a lot of problems. Here are some things that you can do to help broken bones heal well: Do not smoke cigarettes or vape.
Closed fracture (also called simple fracture).
The bone is broken, but the skin is intact.
Your femur — the leg bone between your hip and knee — is the longest, heaviest and strongest bone in your body. It takes tremendous force to break your femur. If you break your femur, you will need immediate medical help. Your broken femur can take months to heal.
Comminuted fractures take longer to heal than other kinds of broken bones. They're also much more likely to involve complications. Most comminuted fractures take around a year or longer to heal.
Your bones, pound for pound, are 4 times stronger than concrete. A muscle called the diaphragm controls the human breathing process. Bone is stronger than some steel.
The average force of a human punch is about 200 kilograms per square inch, so if you get in a fight with a stranger on the street, there's a decent chance you'll walk away without a skull fracture. It all depends on how hard they hit and how strong your skull is.
The tiniest injuries, doctors agree, can often cause maximum pain: ramming a pinky toe into a chair leg, pinching a finger in a door, twanging an elbow on a hard corner, or suffering, inch-for-inch, perhaps the most excruciating superficial trauma, the dreaded paper cut.