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Ortho 118 : Bone Healing - Everything You Need to Know

Credit Hours(s)2.0

InstructorsJoanne Brown, MS, OT, CHT

Price$38.00 USD

Format(s)AudioVisual Course

Educational Objectives

Identify and describe the phases of bone healing
List and describe 3 objectives that serve as the foundation of fracture management and bone healing
Deﬁne and differentiate osteoblasts, osteoclasts, and osteocytes
Deﬁne and discuss Wolff’s law
Discuss 3 principles of stress deprivation, immobilization, and normal physiologic stress as they apply to fracture healing
Identify 3 complications of bone healing
Outline and describe 6 areas of descriptive organization of classifying fractures
Describe pathologic fractures and list 4 types
Discuss 2 ways how osteoporosis affects fractures
List 2 common methods of fracture ﬁxation, ﬁxation devices, and fracture classiﬁcations

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