Question: What happens when you break your radius and humerus? My mum broke them yesterday.

Camille Parsons answered on 18 Jun 2018:

I’m so sorry to hear that, I hope she is not in too much pain 🙁 The radius is a large bone in the forearm and the humerus is a long bone in the upper arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow. A fracture is when a break goes through part or all of a bone usually as a result of force being applied. Bones will bend under strain but if the pressure is too much, or too sudden, bones can fracture.