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A trauma fracture would be any fracture that occurred during some event that was considered a trauma. If you were involved in an automobile accident and sustained a fracture that would be a trauma fracture. If someone came along an hit you with a baseball bat that fractured your tibia that would also qualify as a trauma fracture. If you were walking down the street and the tibia fractured it would not be considered a trauma fracture. There is a big difference between fractured ribs and broken ribs. With broken ribs the doctor is worried that a piece of a rib may puncture your lung.
A fracture is a break in a bone. Most involve a single, significant force applied to normal bone. In a closed fracture, the overlying skin is intact. In an open fracture, the overlying skin is disrupted and the broken bone is in communication with the environment. Pathologic fractures occur when mild or minimal force fractures an area of bone weakened by a disorder (eg, osteoporosis, cancer, infection, bone cyst). When the disorder is osteoporosis, they are often called insufficiency or fragility fractures.