Sacral fracture

The sacrum is the large triangular bone that forms the last part of the vertebral column from the fusion of the five sacral vertebrae.

They tend to be caused by high-energy trauma, for example in road traffic accidents or in falls.

[1] They are heterogenous[2] (which means the bone can break in several different places, in several different ways) and almost always appear together with other injuries.

[1][3] The Denis Classification System classified sacral fractures into three regions according to the part of the bone affected.

The location of the fracture has a major influence on symptoms experienced.