Symptoms

Characteristic features of fractures are deformity, abnormal movement, and fricatives (feelings). Most fractures generally only cause local symptoms, the most common symptoms being local pain, swelling and dysfunction. Severe fractures and multiple fractures may be accompanied by systemic symptoms (eg, shock, fever).

Local pain

All fractures are painful, and the pain is aggravated when the fracture is moved or moved, and local tenderness is obvious.

Swelling

There may be obvious swelling in the fracture part, which is caused by bleeding around the fracture end to form hematoma and soft tissue damage to form edema.

Local ecchymosis

Local hematoma formation at the early stage of the fracture leads to bleeding blue-purple ecchymosis. As time goes by, the hematoma is further decomposed, and the subcutaneous ecchymosis can turn blue, purple or yellow.

Disfunction

After the fracture, the limbs will have corresponding dysfunction. However, patients with incomplete fractures, such as crack fractures and insertion fractures, can retain the activities of their limbs. Characteristic symptoms of a fracture are deformity, abnormal movement, and a fricative sound (feeling).

Deformity

Due to the displacement of the broken end of the fracture, the injured part loses its normal shape, and local deformities appear.