Allows bony healing to begin before surgery and involves pins and screws

Provides rigid immobilization of the fracture site and involves pulleys and wheels

Lengthens the fractured leg to prevent severing of blood vessels and involves pins and screws

Provides comfort by reducing muscle spasms, provides fracture immobilization, and involves pulleys and wheels

A client with a hip fracture asks the nurse about Buck’s (extension) traction that is being applied before surgery and what is involved. The nurse should provide which information to the client?