When performed properly, complications of fracture and dislocation reduction are uncommon. However, even with proper techniques, complications can occur. These include converting a closed fracture to an open fracture, soft tissue trauma that produces a compartment syndrome, a reduction attempt that causes injury to the soft tissues making the fracture more unstable, producing a fracture during the dislocation reduction attempt by using excessive force, or neurovascular injury/compromise due to bony laceration, or compression of a nerve or blood vessel.