2 stress fractures
1) fatigue
2) insufficiency
tuft fx w/ disruption of nail plate-mx?
“open” but no OR, just abx
phases of fracture healing
1) inflamm
2) reparative
3) remodeling
* gran tissue at 7-14 d = MORE LYTIC
fracture healing-fastest, normal, slowest
abnormal healing
1) delayed-2x as long
2) non-union-will not heal without intervention. 6-9 mo
3) mal union
classic locs for “non-union” fx
RFs for abnormal fracture healing
stress fracture compressive vs tensile sides healing
compressive-pushed together, heal well
tensile- pulled apart, no bueno
tibia compressive vs tensile side
- tensile= ant mid shaft. “dreaded black lines”
MC stress fx in young athlete
tibia
femoral neck compressive vs tensile side
C=medial (MC), younger, inferior femoral neck
-T=lateral; oder people
SONK-what, who, where
“spon’t osteonecrosis of knee”
most fractured tarsal bone
calcaneus (75% intraairticular)
orientation calcaneal stress fx
perpendicular
which tarsal is at risk for AVN?
navicular
march fracture
metatarsal stress fx seen in recruits marching all day
stress fx to know…
high vs low risk stress fx based on healing
High: lateral femoral neck (tensile side), ant tib mid shaft (tensile side), transverse patellar fx, 5th MT, talus, navicular, sesamoid GT
Low: medial femoral neck (compressive side), pst prox/distal 3rd tibia (C side), long patellar fx, 2nd & 3rd MT, calcaneus
how do you know wrist xray is true lateral?
palmar cortex of pisiform centrally btw palmar cortex of scaphoid & capitate
BF to scaphoid retrograde? why is it retrograde
- 80% covered by cartilage
which age group most susc to scaphoid fx age group
-adol/young adults (grandma more likely to get distal radial fx with similar mechanism)
1st sign avn
sclerosis
mc scaphoid fx site.
waste
prieser dx
atraumatic avn of scaphoid