Approximately 5.9 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes, and about 65 percent of these people will also develop neuropathy — nervous system damage that can cause people with diabetes to lose feeling in their hands or feet. This condition is just one reason why Louise E. Tortora, DPM, an ankle and foot care doctor in Fairfield, CT, educates her patients on the importance of diabetic foot care. If you have diabetes, here are a few reasons why you should have a diabetic foot care exam…
1. The skull bones protect the brain from injury, the vertebra surrounds the spinal cord and the rib cage helps protect important organs of the thorax. Some examples are: the bones in our skull protect the brain and the ribs protect the heart and lungs. The bones make a structure that supports our body and holds and protects soft organs. Some examples are: the bones of the lower limbs provide support to the body trunk when we stand, and the rib cage supports the thoracic wall. 2. The skeletal…
”What a fractoris is is a break in the bone that could occur from either a quick one time break injury to the bone or from repeated stress to the bone over time” (“Handout on health”). “A stress fracture occurs largely in the feet and legs are common in sports that require repetitive impact/ primary running/jumping sports such as gymnastics or track and field”(“Handout on health”). Running creates forces two or three times to a person's body weight on lower limbs. “A acute fracture can be…
In HCC, most frequently encountered metastatic sites are lungs(47%), lymph nodes(45%), bones(37%) and rarely adrenal glands(12%)[3]. Skeletal invasion in HCC is a rather less likely cause of distant metastases. However a recent survey[4] showed an increased incidence of bone metastases up to 25% over the last decade[5] involving the axial skeleton frequently. Although very uncommon, there are several other reported cases with a…
skeletal system consists of tendons, ligaments, and cartilage that connects two hundred and six bones in the body. Each element plays a vital role in the function of support, movement, protection, blood cell production, calcium storage, and endocrine regulation. Typically a bone has a dense and tough outer layer followed by a spongy layer that is lighter and flexible. In the middle of the bones are bone marrow, where new cells are constantly being made for blood. The skeletal system is divided…
The structure most likely injured with the direct blow of the tibial tuberosity resulting in presentation of the lower limb (figure 1) would be the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). The presented picture shows the tibia being pushed back posteriorly. The PCL, within the knee joint, prevents posterior translation of the tibia bone related to the femur bone (Moore et., al, 2014). If the PCL is torn, then the tibia can move backward too much leading to instability of the knee. The knee joint…
hard labour and a strong diet. But what do the skeletons tell us about the diet of the average Roman. “It-s difficult to reach any specific conclusions about their diet based on the results - but given the incomplete way their bones healed and really high incidences of bone cancer we encountered, it doesn't suggest it was…
Open limb fractures are commonly encountered as part of our daily practice. They are often complex injuries to manage and require a multidisciplinary team due to the musculoskeletal and associated soft-tissue injuries (1-3). The annual incidence of open fractures of long bones is 11.5 per 100,000 persons per year with 40% of them occur in the Lower Limb (LL) (4,5). Several classification systems have been used to grade the extent of injury and helped define the contemporary approach to the…
and the upper and lower limbs. The skeletal system is made up of two different regions, the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton (see Figure 1, Appendix A) The average baby is born with 270 bones which fuse together as they age and decrease to about 206 bones by late teens, early twenties. The skeletal system provides support, protection, production, storage (Saladin, 2015). The Skull The most complex part of the skeleton is the skull. The average skull consists of 22 bones which are…
has many functions in order to sustain life. The body has organs, bones, and muscles, but it also has compartments which house different parts of the body. One of the things that medical professionals do not see that much of however, is compartment syndrome. When one of these compartments become injured, it causes a great amount of increased pressure inside the compartment and it can cause ischemia of the muscle and loss of a limb. This condition is known as Compartment Syndrome (Nielson &…