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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.
Linear fractures, the most common, involve a break in the bone but no displacement, and generally no intervention is required. These fractures are usually the result of low-energy transfer due to blunt trauma over a wide surface area of the skull. The fracture involves the entire thickness of the skull.