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A sprain is damage to soft tissue, a broken bone is damage to hard tissue.
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Can you break a bone in your foot that feels like a sprain?
Yes, it's possible to break a bone in your foot and think you have a sprain
What is the difference between and sprain a strain and a fracture?
A strain is an overstretched or "pulled" or torn muscle. a sprain is an overstretched or torn ligament (holds bones together at a joint), and a fracture is a crack, chip, break or crush of a bone.
What is easier sprain your ankle or break your ankle?
idk but i really want to sprain my ankle because when you brake a foot that means you snaped a bone in half but when you sprain your ankle that means that your ankle bone tore
Can you sprain your thumb bone?
A sprain is soft tissue damage. You cannot sprain a bone. You can sprain your thumb, just not the bone itself.
What is the difference between bone and bones?
the difference is that spongy bone is soft and sqeezeable and regular bone are hard to bite and its harder to break
What are the similar things in sprain and fracture?
a sprain means that you have jarred the injured body part. A fracture is when you dent or break the bone. A few weeks ago I buckle fractured my arm and it was broken on the inside of my bone not the outside.
What is the difference between fracture and a sprain?
a dislocation is always between two or more articulating joint while a fracture is discontinuation of a bone. physically in fractures there might be change in length of the extremity while they wouldn't be any change in dislocation
How do you break an already sprained ankle?
There's no such thing as a "sprained bone." A sprain is a partial tear of a ligament or tendon; it's not an injury to a bone.
What are the difference between a strain and a sprain?
A sprain affects the bone, while a strain does no
What are the different bone disorders?
sprain,dislocation of the bone, and paralyzed
Can you break your leg from a shin splint?
It's possible to sprain muscles in the shin area.
What statement correctly compares a sprain to a strain?
A sprain affects the bone, while a strain does no
