If, when attending to a person injured in a traffic accident, you notice a deformity or lump on a limb and the person reports intense pain that gets worse when the area is touched, what type of injury is most likely?

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In first aid at road accidents, an obvious lump or deformity or the shortening of a limb, with sharp pain that clearly gets worse on touching the area or trying to move it, is a classic sign of a bone fracture (a broken bone). When this is suspected, you must not try to reposition the limb under any circumstances: you calm the injured person and immobilize the area in the position it is found, and you control any bleeding if the fracture is open. A spinal cord injury is located in the spine and usually shows itself as tingling, loss of sensation or paralysis, not as a painful lump on a limb. Internal abdominal bleeding does not describe the picture of a localized bone injury in an arm or a leg either.

If, when attending to a person injured in a traffic accident, you notice a deformity or lump on a limb and the person reports intense pain that gets worse when the area is touched, what type of injury is most likely?

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