REPORT: Officer Darren Wilson Suffered ‘Orbital Blowout Fracture to Eye Socket’ During Mike Brown Incident

Local St. Louis sources said Wilson suffered an "orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket." This comes from a source within the Prosecuting Attorney's office and confirmed by the St. Louis County Police. John Hames shared with you:   REPORT: Officer Darren Wilson Suffered 'Orbital Blowout Fracture to Eye Socket' During Mike Brown Incident toprightnews.com - The developments keep coming at a furious pace out of Ferguson, Missouri on the Mike Brown case, against a backdrop of nightly violence and looting that seems to be intensifying with each passing day. What is an orbital fracture? •The orbit is the bony eye socket that contains the eyeball, eye muscles and lacrimal gland. There are also nerves, arteries, veins and orbital fat. •An orbital fracture may occur after blunt trauma to the eye, eyelids or area around the eyelids. •Any of the 4 walls of the orbit may fracture but commonly it is the floor and medial(nasal) wall that are fractured. •The mechanism of fracture is displacement of the eyeball back into the socket, which causes a rapid rise in orbital pressure causing the thin orbital bones to out-fracture or "blow out". For this reason these fractures are also known as "blow out fractures".  •Orbital tissue, particularly eye muscle and fat may become trapped in between the fractured bone edges causing limitation of eye movement and double vision. •If a fracture is large, orbital tissue may sink into it, dragging the whole eye with it. This may cause the eye to move back into the socket creating a sunken appearance (enophthalmos). Available on the App Store.

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