San Francisco Broken Bone Injury Attorneys

The San Francisco California broken bone injury lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have worked hard for their injured clients for the last thirty years. We want to be there for you in your time of need. We will meet with you to discuss your broken bone injury case, your questions, your legal options and exactly how we can help you maximize your possible compensation. We have represented all broken bone injury cases from workers’ compensation claims and personal injury cases to work injury cases.

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Fracture injuries and their specific treatments and recovery time can be difficult on the victim and their family. From moving around to washing, it can be challenging. We will ensure that you are receiving comprehensive medical care to heal properly and recuperate. Contact us any time at (415) 200-0701 to schedule your free initial consultation and case evaluation.

Broken Bone / Fracture Definition

Broken bones are when the amount of force that is applied to a bone is stronger than the actual bone. Medical professionals abbreviate fractures by writing #, FRX, or Fx.

Broken Bone / Fracture Causes

The most typical causes for fractures are:

Car, SUV and truck or trucking accidents;
Osteoporosis;
Ladder injuries;
Pathological fracture from tumors, infections or cysts;
On the job accidents;
Motorcycle accidents;
Violence and fighting;
Bicycle accidents;
Work injury;
Defective Hip Replacement
Crosswalk accidents;
Repetitive stresses like running on sidewalks, boxing, etc;
Slipping, tripping and falling;
Pedestrian accidents;
Bicycle or skateboard accidents; and
Sports injuries.

Symptoms of Broken Bone Injuries

Please call for help if you believe you might have broken a bone. Fractures are not always easy to diagnose. This is definitely true in the case of a hairline or stress fracture. The usual signs of a fracture are: swelling, pain, bruising, and tenderness.

Types of Fractures

There are many types of broken bones but here are the general categories your doctor may use to describe your broken bone:

Simple Broken Bone Injury: These broken bones are when the bone fractures but it doesn’t puncture a hole in the outer layer of skin. A simple break can be called a closed broken bone.

Compound Broken Bone Injury: This is when the fracture has actually created a hole in the outer skin. A compound fracture is also known as an open broken bone. The hole in the skin creates the risk of a deep bone infection called osteomyelitis.

Transverse & Linear Broken Bone Injury: Linear Broken Bones are fractures whose break is parallel to the injured bone whereas transverse broken bones are breaks that are at a 90 degree angle to the bone.

Greenstick Broken Bone: This is when the injured person’s bone has bent because of excessive force but the bone has not fully broken or snapped.

Impacted Broken Bone: Bones have become impacted when two of the fracture victim’s bones are forced into each other. This happens more to children and older adults since those are the two age group that are most likely to trip, slip, or fall.

Non-Displaced and Displaced Broken Bone Injury: Non-displaced fractures are where the bone does not move from its normal alignment and location because of a break. Displaced fractures are when the bone fractures and shifts out of its normal location and alignment due to the break.

Stress Fracture Injury: Stress fractures can be caused by repetitive force against the bones over an extended duration. Playing sports, repetitive jobs and poor nutrition are some of the main reasons for stress fractures.

Commuted Broken Bones Injury: This is when the break causes the bone to shatter into many pieces.

Pathologic Broken Bone Injury: These are fractures that occur either partially or fully because of pathologic causes that weaken the bones like tumors, osteoporosis, infections, and some other bone disorders. Osteoporosis is one of the most common examples.

Broken Bone Injury Treatment

Treatment for your broken bone injury will vary depending on the location, the type of break, the severity of the break, and the overall condition and age of the patient. The doctor may need to set the broken bone and put a cast around it to help it heal properly. In more complex fracture cases, the use of pins, screws, rods, and plates may be needed.

List of Fractures

Foot Bones: About 1/10 of fractures happen to feet. This may be because the foot is vulnerable to trauma. It is constructed with 3 sections consisting that include 26 bones.

Forefoot Bones: The forefoot has nineteen very small bones. Its makeup is similar to the structure of human fingers and palms. Each toe has a distal phalanx that is its tip. The toe’s middle phalanx is after the distal phalanx. The proximal phalanx is connected to long metatarsal bones.

Midfoot Bones: The middle part of the foot includes five bones which are the medial cuneiform bone, cuboid, navicular, lateral cuneiform bone, and the intermediate cuneiform bone. This section constructs the foot’s arch.

Hindfoot Bones: The hindfoot is made up of two large bones called the talus and the calcaneus. The talus is the ankle and the calcaneus is the heel.

Pelvis Bones: The pelvis area has four bones. For people over 65, the hip bone breaks are the most common fracture. The hips are made up of: the ischium, the ilium, and the pubis. Most fractured hips happen due to the affects of osteoporosis: Weakened bones. The other two bones of the pelvis are the coccyx (tailbone) and the sacrum.

Leg & Thigh Bones: The femur makes up the thigh. It is so structurally strong that it is able to support over twenty-five times the weight of an average adult. The lower legs from the knees down consist of the fibula, patella (kneecap), and tibia. The tibia and fibula are found below the knee.

Wrist Bones: The bones that people younger than sixty-five years of age fracture the most are their wrist bones. Wrist fractures usually refer to breaking one or both of the forearm bones (the radius and ulna). The eight wrist bones are in two sets of four bones. One row has the trapezium bone, capitate bone, trapezoid bone, and the hamate bone. The second row has the scaphoid bone, lunate bone, triquetrum bone, and pisiform bone.

Hand Bones: The metacarpal bones make up the palm and connect the fingers with the wrist bones. Each of our fingers has three small bones whereas the thumb only has two. The bone at the tip of our finger is named the distal phalanx. The middle bone is the middle phalanx. The bone nearest to the wrist is the proximal phalanx.

Arm Bones: The forearm is made of two long bones called the ulna and the radial. These bones often break due to bicycle, skateboard, car, or motorcycle accidents or sports injuries. When the fracture happens to be in the middle section of either of the forearm bones (not near the wrist or the elbow), it can be referred to as a radial shaft break or ulnar shaft break. The humerus is a very strong bone that makes up the upper arm from the shoulder down to the elbow.

Spinal Cord: The spinal cord is made up of five lumbar vertebrae, twelve thoracic vertebrae, and seven cervical vertebrae. More detailed information on the spinal cord and what we can offer victims of spinal cord injuries can be found in the Spinal Cord Injury page.

Thorax Bones: The thorax is what makes our chest cavity and it protects many of our internal organs. Twenty-four of those bones are the two sets of twelve ribs and the twenty-fifth bone is the sternum. Some medical professionals believe that the sternum is made up of three bones called the xiphoid process, the gladiolus (body of the sternum), and the manubrium.

Collarbones and Shoulders: Clavicle is another name for collarbone and its two most critical functions are to: (1) Keep the shoulder up and (2) Protect the blood vessels and nerves. The second bone that is a part of the shoulder is the scapula (shoulder blade). There are three types of common fractures that happen to the scapula. They are: scapular neck fractures, scapula body fractures, and glenoid fractures.

Skull and Cranial Bones: The skull includes eight cranial bones and they are the two temporal bones, the frontal bone, the two parietal bones, the occipital bone, the sphenoid bone, and the ethmoid bone.

Facial Bones: Fourteen bones make up the set of facial bones. They are: the mandible or lower jaw, the two nasal bones, the two maxilla bones or upper jaw, the vomer, the hyoid bone in the throat, the two cheek bones (zygomatic bones), the two palatine bones, the lacrimal bone, and the inferior nasal concha.

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