Here's to hoping your next fracture is a closed fracture.

A closed fractures occurs when the broken bone does not puncture the skin.

The syndrome manifests more frequently in closed fractures of the pelvis or long bones.

A closed fracture is when the bone breaks but there is no puncture or open wound in the skin.

This is an important difference from a closed fracture because with an open fracture there is a risk of a deep bone infection.

The death certificate listed "closed fracture of the skull and facial bone" as his cause of death.

You'll know it's a closed fracture if you can't see a fractured bone sticking out of your skin (the dreaded open fracture).

Closed Fracture: With a closed fracture, the skin is not broken.

Closed fractures (where the skin is still intact) of the radius bone are treated non-surgically with cast; the immobilization can also help heal the TFCC.

The specific treatment applied depends on how severe the fracture is, if it's an open or closed fracture, and the specific bone involved in the fracture (a hip fracture is treated differently than a forearm fracture for example)

A similar classification is open versus closed treatment, in which open treatment refers to any treatment in which the fracture site is surgically opened, regardless of whether the fracture itself is an open or closed fracture.

Their work showed that blood was missing from the circulation just as often in closed fractures as in open wounds, that the blood lost appeared proportional to the severity of the wound and that the swelling of the injury frequently corresponded to the volume of blood lost.