Fractures

A fracture is a break, usually in a bone, and if the broken bone punctures the skin, it's then known as an open or compound fracture. Fractures commonly happen due to car accidents, falls or sports injuries. Another cause is osteoporosis, which causes weakening of the bones. Overuse can cause stress fractures, which are very small cracks in the bone.

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Updated January 2008

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Osteoporosis
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Title:   Interventions for treating wrist fractures in children
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Approximately a third of all fractures in children occur at the wrist as a result of falling onto an outstretched hand. Some fractures are relatively minor and involve a bulging of the bone surface. These are buckle fractures and they are traditionally ...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Bone grafts and bone substitutes for treating distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of the two forearm bones) often results from a fall onto an outstretched hand in older adults and from high-energy trauma, such as a road traffic accident, in young adults. Surgery may be considered for...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Different methods of external fixation for treating distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In older people, a 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of the two forearm bones) can result from a fall onto an outstretched hand. Surgery may be considered for more seriously displaced fractures. One type of surgery is external fixation, i...
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   External fixation versus conservative treatment for distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In older people, a 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of one of the two forearm bones) can result from a fall onto an outstretched hand. Treatment usually involves reduction (putting the broken bone back into position) and immobilising the...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Percutaneous pinning for treating distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In older people, a 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of one of the two forearm bones) can result from a fall onto an outstretched hand. Treatment usually involves reduction (putting the broken bone back into position) and immobilising the...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Management of the fractured edentulous atrophic mandible
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The review authors found insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of either approach, which may be partly attributable to a lack of agreement in what is open or closed and conservative and invasive treatment, in addition to some variability in what a...
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Hip fracture injuries
Publisher:   Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Description:   The incidence of hip fractures is rising and projected to further increase in Australia due to the population growth in the oldest age groups, where hip fractures are the most common form of fracture. Hip fractures result in a large economic burden due to health expenditure in most industrialised countries.
Date:   Nov 2006
Title:   Internal fixation versus arthroplasty for intracapsular proximal femoral fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Fractures of the thigh bone (femur) near the hip joint (termed intracapsular) may be treated by fixing the fracture (with screws or pins), or alternatively replacing the top of the femur at the hip joint (femoral head) with an artificial hip joint (arth...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Nutritional supplementation for hip fracture aftercare in older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Older people with hip fractures are often malnourished at the time of their fracture and many have poor food intake while in hospital. Malnutrition may hinder recovery after hip fracture. We reviewed the effects of nutritional interventions in older peo...
Date:   Aug 2006
Title:   Pre-operative traction for fractures of the proximal femur in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   For people with hip fractures, traction involves either using tapes (skin traction) or pins (skeletal traction) attached to the injured leg and connected to weights via a pulley. The application of traction before surgery is thought to relieve pain and ...
Date:   May 2006
Title:   INFUSE? bone graft for the treatment of open tibial fractures (update)
Publisher:   Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures - Surgical (ASERNIP-S)
Description:   ASERNIP-S has performed an updated prioritising summary on INFUSE? bone graft for the treatment of open tibial fractures.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Fall prevention
Publisher:   The Jean Hailes Foundation for Women's Health
Description:   Risk factors in the elderly that lead to an increase in falls such as poor vision, decreased joint position sense, poor balance and physical strength and increased frailty, where possible should be addressed and improved.
Date:   Feb 2006
Title:   Replacement arthroplasty versus internal fixation for extracapsular hip fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Roughly half of all hip fractures are outside the hip joint capsule (extracapsular proximal femoral fractures). Most of these will be fixed or stabilised using metal implants which are a combination of screws, rods and plates attached to the thigh bone ...
Date:   Feb 2006
Title:   Extramedullary fixation implants and external fixators for extracapsular hip fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hip fractures located outside the hip joint capsule (extracapsular hip fractures) may be surgically fixed using metal implants. Often these are extramedullary devices consisting of a screw or rod, inserted in the upper part of the thigh bone (femur) to ...
Date:   Nov 2005
Title:   Gamma and other cephalocondylic intramedullary nails versus extramedullary implants for extracapsular hip fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hip fractures located outside the hip joint capsule (extracapsular hip fractures) may be surgically fixed using a variety of implants. One particular type of implant is the sliding hip screw. This consists of a large screw that is inserted into the uppe...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Hip protectors for preventing hip fractures in older people
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hip protectors, which consist of plastic shields or foam pads fitted in pockets within specially designed underwear, aim to reduce the impact of a fall on the hip, and thus the risk of a hip fracture. We found some evidence that in institutions with hig...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Conservative treatment for closed fifth (small finger) metacarpal neck fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Fractures through the fifth metacarpal bone in the hand are common, particularly associated with punching a hard object. Methods used to treat the fracture include resting the hand in a splint until the fracture is healed, and various forms of partial s...
Date:   May 2005
Title:   Surgical approaches and ancillary techniques for internal fixation of intracapsular proximal femoral fractures
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Hip fractures located within the hip joint capsule (intracapsular hip fractures) may be surgically fixed using a variety of different implants and surgical techniques. This review examines the effects of different surgical techniques. It found insuffici...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Bioresorbable fixation devices for musculoskeletal injuries in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Use of implants made of materials that slowly dissolve over time theoretically offer benefits over metal implants to fixate bone fractures and to reattach ligaments to bone. Once inserted, there would be no need to remove the bioresorbable implants and ...
Date:   Nov 2004
Title:   Anaesthesia for hip fracture surgery in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The majority of people with hip fracture are elderly and are treated surgically, which requires anaesthesia. The most common types of anaesthesia are 'general' and 'spinal'. General anaesthesia, which involves a loss of consciousness, typically includes...
Date:   Jun 2004
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