The breaks: how to treat a broken bone when you're in the wilderness, miles from help.(Survival)

Sports Afield | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

It sounded like a thick branch snapping," said a hunter who broke his arm in a fall. Another hunter, who tumbled while sheep hunting in Alaska, likened the break of his leg bone to "the crack of a small-caliber rifle."

Not all bone fractures are this loud, obvious, or severe. A bone can be broken in several ways. Fractures are termed simple when the break is singular and clean, comminuted, or multiple, when the bone is shattered or broken in more than one place. If the skin above the break is intact, the fracture is closed. If the skin is broken, so that the break ...

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