Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Bone Fracture

A bone fracture is a break in the continuity of bone, occurring when the load applied exceeds the tissue's strength, whether through acute trauma, repetitive stress, or pathological weakening of the bone. Fractures are classified by pattern and displacement, transverse, oblique, spiral, comminuted, greenstick, and b…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 79× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2694-2283 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

A bone fracture is a break in the continuity of bone, occurring when the load applied exceeds the tissue's strength, whether through acute trauma, repetitive stress, or pathological weakening of the bone. Fractures are classified by pattern and displacement, transverse, oblique, spiral, comminuted, greenstick, and by whether they are closed or open, and by location and mechanism, including stress fractures common in athletes and fragility fractures in osteoporotic bone. Healing proceeds through inflammatory, reparative, and remodelling phases, forming a callus that is progressively replaced by mature bone, a process influenced by stability, vascularity, and biological stimulation. Management ranges from immobilization to surgical fixation, and adjuncts such as low-level laser therapy and bone-graft materials are studied to accelerate repair. The peer-reviewed work assembled here engages these themes within Sports and Exercise Medicine and musculoskeletal research: the effect of laser irradiation on reparative osteogenesis, low-level laser therapy for pain control and bone remodelling in paediatric fractures, calcium orthophosphate scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, secondary hip fractures in ageing adults, electromagnetic fields in osteoarthritis, and imaging of bone-allograft viability. Across these studies bone fracture appears through fracture healing, biostimulation, grafting and scaffold strategies, and fragility in ageing. The collection situates bone fracture as a problem of biomechanics and tissue repair central to orthopaedic and sports medicine, spanning injury, healing, and reconstruction.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 79 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Sports and Exercise Medicine (ISSN 2694-2283).

Journal editorial board
Gerasimos Grivas · Greece Angelo Cataldo · Italy Guy CHERON · Belgium

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