a. Why are fractures most common in elderly individuals? b. Why are greenstick fractures most common in children?

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Welcome back, everyone. Let's look at our next problem. A type of bone fracture that occurs in Children, particularly those with developing bones is called an or a, a compression fracture. B depressed fracture. C Greenstick fracture or D impacted fracture. Well, we're thinking about Children with still developing bones and that hopefully can help us to recall that this type of fracture is a green stick fracture. Choice. C think of green wood like a still young and growing tree and just like if you tried to break a very green branch, it would most likely bend, it wouldn't break very easily. That's how young children's bones are. So the bones are more flexible and don't break completely into like two separate pieces. They tend to break or bend and then break just as uh incompletely. And this is due to the fact that the bones have more collagen in them still. So they have that greater flexibility. Let's just look at our other answer choices to recall what they are. Um It's fairly easy to tell from the names what these are in a compression fracture, the bones are compressed or crushed. So that name points us in that way. Uh This most commonly is an injury to the vertebrae where they might get compress, compressed or crushed, but not what we're looking for. In choice. B A depressed fracture is when a portion of the bone actually is pushed inward. So bone pushed inward and that ends up creating a depression or an indentation in the bone, thus its name, but not what we're looking for. And then finally, choice d an impacted fracture when the broken ends of the bone are driven together, so impacted against each other. But again, not the description of what we're looking at. So again, the bone fracture that typically occurs in Children, particularly with developing bones is a choice c A green stick fracture and usually involves bending of the bone and not a complete breakage. So we will leave this painful topic and move on to the next video. See you there.