Case Study


Explain to your supervisor your summary of the patient’s complaint and background history.

 In your report, be sure to explain specifics about the location of fractures.

 In your report address through researching the types of fractures and explain what you researched about the types of fractures found in the patient history.

 Explain why her injury to her leg was more likely to become infected than her injury to her wrist.

In your report, you should investigate and describe the microscopic features of bone tissue (especially long bones) that help them withstand lateral stress without breaking and compressive forces without breaking.

Because this was a lower leg bone injury and lower arm injury, several joints were involved in the event. Explain the features of the knee, wrist and shoulder that minimize friction between bones and how they ultimately reduce the incidence of occurrence of bone fractures.

Explain in your report the processes of bone healing you expect to happen for the patient (how bone repairs itself).

 You should include in your report how weight-bearing influences the bone repair process.

 Report why bones heal more quickly than cartilage and how the timeline for healing of the various injured parts of her limbs for this patient.

 Explain what the last sentence of the report means to you and provide a long term outlook for the patient.