BRACE - an externally applied device to support a body part, control movement, and prevent injury., SPLINT - applied to a fractured extremity until the swelling subsides, to support and immobilize a body part in the desired position, SCOLIOSIS - Lateral curving of the spine, LORDOSIS - Increase in the lumbar curvature of the spine, MALUNION - Occurs when a fractured bone heals in a misaligned position, NONUNION - Failure of fragments of a fractured bone to health together, ABDUCTION - Movement away from midline, ADDUCTION - Movement toward midline, INVERSION - Turning Inward, EVERSION - Turning outward, CREPITUS - Grating or crackling sound/sensation that occurs with movement of the ends of a broken bone, or irregular joint surface, CALLUS - Fibrous tissue that forms at a fracture site, CLONUS - Rhythmic contraction of muscle, FASCICULATION - Involuntary twitch of muscle fibers, CHOREA  - Rapid, jerky, involuntary, purposeless movement of the extremity,

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