Hard tissue

• Acute hard tissue injuries


  Hard tissue –solid structure of musculo-skeletal system - e.g. bone, cartilge
• Fracture


  Partial/complete break to a bone
• Types of fractures


  • Simple/closed → break through bone with little damage to surrounding tissue
  • Open/compound → complicated break where none breaks through skin
  • Displaced → 2 parts of broken bone have moved apart
  • Comminuted → bone breaks into several pieces
• Dislocation


  Separation of 2 bones where they meet at a joint
• Cartilage damage


  A piece of (articular) cartilage breaks off + affects movement of joint