Greenstick fractures are the type of fractures where one side of the cortex is intact and flexed while the other side is fractured. This type of fracture known as the incomplete fracture,
If any fracture have two or more lines of fracture it is called as Comminuted fractures. Impacted fractures have one segment on other. Due to the performing same activity again and again stress fracture occures that is characterized by failure of one cortical bone.