PLASTER OF PARIS

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PLASTER OF PARIS is a mnemonic to remind you how to describe a fracture:

Plane
Location
Articular cartilage involvement
Simple or comminuted
Type (eg Colles’)
Extent
Reason

Open or closed
Foreign bodies

disPlacement
Angulation
Rotation
Impaction
Shortening

Mnemonics are a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something.

Other podiatry relevant mnemonics:

DANG THE RAPIST	Haleem’s Hen	CORTICOSTEROIDS	Cornish Ladies Grow Special Begonias	PAD and DAB
Tom, Dick and A Very Nervous Harry	SOCRATES	Tiny Dogs Are Not Hunters	PREPSOCS	PLASTER OF PARIS
ADME	FOG MACHINES	MAD COP	LOSS	9 S's and 6 D's for Charcot's Foot
CLUBBING	BIG G

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