It is true that the fibrocartilage callus is the first repair mass to splint the broken bone. The bone will attempt to heal itself.
fibrocartilage callus
Fibrocartilage callus
A brace or support to a broken bone would be a cast. When a person experiences a clean break in a bone, a doctor will apply a cast to the broken bone area. The cast allows to bone to heal properly.
aligning broken ends of bone, surgery, plaster cast, splint
If you truly have a fracture, the bone is broken. Rubbing it can cause the ends of the broken bone to damage tissue near it. That is why fractures are kept from moving by a cast or splint.
A splint.
Their treatment methods were really painful. They would try to pull the broken bone back into place. When they would feel that everything is right, they would splint the broken bone.
It will begin to grow together and mend. It will, at first, over grow and form a callus. This extra bone will be removed in a process called remodeling.
You splint it and go to hospital for medical treatment as soon as possible.
A splint bone is a normal part of the horse's leg. It is very thin and tiny and easily broken. When the splint bone is fractured, cracked or injured, we commonly say that the horse has popped a splint. Swelling and calcification of the bone occurs. A horse with a popped splint may be somewhat lame for a while, and the splint is unsightly, but once it heals most horses resume normally as before. Horses frequently pop splints while being worked as young animals. The condition usually is the result of an injury or overwork. If you jump or work a horse on hard ground the bone in there legs may splint. This could be from dried fields or concrete/ tarmac.
A bone fracture is the medical term for a "broken bone" but with 8 letters it does not suit. Perhaps splint is a term that could be used but it is not the correct medical term.
Crepitus - one of the signs of a broken bone is a grinding sound when the extremity is moved.
If it was a dislocation, they'd pull it back into place like they do today. If it was a break that remained contained, i.e. bone not sticking out of the skin, they would pull it back into place the best they could and then splint it. Tie to boards or rods on either side of the leg. If the bone popped out of the skin, they were pretty much goners. I supposed they'd set it but chances were too good that infection would take the limb or their life. If you look at how the average lifespan had close to doubled between 1900 and 2000 it's all because of anti-biotics.