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Which of the following scenarios could result in a low trauma or osteoporotic fracture?

Missing the bottom step and falling on your outstretched hand

Slipping in the shower and falling on the edge of the tub

Tripping over your dog’s leash on a walk and falling on the cement sidewalk

Falling out of bed onto the floor

All of the above

Choose the correct pairing.

Vertebral fractures: most often result from a fall

Hip fractures: could be a fall or standing and turning on a fixed foot

Wrist fractures: result most often from hitting your hand on the edge of a counter

True or false: someone could have thoracic vertebral fractures without notable change in their vertebral alignment (ie., hyperkyphosis).

True

False

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