The more common form of destruction is hypertrophic joint disease, characterized by acute peri-articular fracture and joint dislocation.

You can't treat that like you would the acute fracture.

After treatment of the acute fracture, the risk of future fractures should be addressed.

The early onset of osteoporosis can lead to an increased risk of stress fracture and acute fractures because decreased bone density is not easily reversed.

Lipus is used in the Exogen bone stimulator for use in acute fractures and nonunions of bone.

Traumatic spondylolisthesis is very rare and may be associated with acute fracture of the inferior facets or pars interarticularis.

If the patient is unable to extend the dysfunctional arm then a further workup including radiography for acute fracture should be pursued.

It is used for the treatment of acute fractures, mal-unions, non-unions and congenital deformities.

Just as OCD shares symptoms with common maladies, acute osteochondral fracture has a similar presentation with tenderness in the affected joint, but is usually associated with a fatty hemarthrosis.

Conditions treated at the facility include chronic & acute fractures, post traumatic deformities and post traumatic arthritis.