Osteoporosis

Research Paper: Osteogenesis Imperfecta What is Osteogenesis Imperfecta? Osteogenesis Imperfecta is a genetic brittle bone disorder. The disorder is characterized by bones that easily break, due to little or no apparent cause. A classification system of several different types of Osteogenesis Imperfecta is used to diagnose just how severely a person with Osteogenesis Imperfecta is affected. The severity of Osteogenesis Imperfecta varies from case to case, even among cases of the same type of OI…

Bone Types Long Bones: Long bones are dense, hard bones that provide strength stability and mobility. For example the femur is a long bone. A long bone has two ends and a shaft. In the finger some bones are long bones, due to the shape of the bones despite them being short. http://umm.edu/health/medical/ency/articles/long-bones Short Bones: Short bones are as long as they are wide. They’re function of them is to provide stability and little movement. http://www.teachpe.com/anatomy/types_of_bones…

Osteopetrosis is a clinical syndrome characterized by the failure of osteoclasts to resorb bone. As a consequence, bone modeling and remodeling are impaired. The defect in bone turnover characteristically results in skeletal fragility despite increased bone mass, and it may also cause hematopoietic insufficiency, disturbed tooth eruption, nerve entrapment syndromes, and growth impairment. Researchers have described several major types of osteopetrosis, which are usually distinguished by their…

20 people out of every 100,000 people worldwide have Myasthenia Gravis (Myasthenia Gravis, 2012). Myasthenia Gravis is a disorder that causes skeletal muscle weakness. People experience the worst weakness during periods of activity and the weakness improves under periods of rest. The most common weakness is located in the muscles around the eyes. This causes blurred or double vision in the eyes. It also effects the muscles used in facial expression and chewing. These conditions can cause…

Introduction A fall injuries are common in elderly throughout the life span, but the importance of a fall event depends on the person's age. Young children fall frequently but they only suffer injuries with bruises and bumps while for elderly they result in fractures, lacerations, sprains, dislocations and subdural hematomas. However, falls in elderly can also result in serious injuries or even death. Today, the risk managers take a more positive contact by raising alertness that put staffs at…

Osteogenesis Imperfect is also known as the, “Brittle Bone Disease”. This is an extremely rare disease with less than twenty thousand cases a year. As of today there is no known available cure, but there are treatments available to lessen the symptoms of the disease. This is a chronic illness that can last up to a few months, to lasting a person’s entire lifetime. This is a disease that causes extreme fragility in the bones of a normal person. This could make a person’s life extremely difficult…

Abnormal growth associated with neoplastic conditions, disorders caused by anomalous metabolic processes contagions and malignancies result in metastasis in the skeletal tissue. The most frequent organ affected by metastases besides lung and liver is bone. Most of of these metastases are caused by breast or prostate carcinoma. Majority of patients with metastatic conditions develop bone metastases that further leads to a pronounced morbidity and mortality as a result of skeletal-related events…

Growth Plate Injuries A growth plate is the part of the bone that is located at the ends of every long bone, near the epiphysis. It’s made of cartilage and it is where the length of the bone increases. Growth plate injuries only are relevant to young ages because when an adolescent's bone stops growing the growth plate hardens and becomes part of the bone itself. When a growth plate it damaged before ossifying, it may cause problems in the child’s growth of that specific bone. Growth plate…

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) or the stone man syndrome is a disorder in which the muscle tissue and connective tissue such as tendons and ligaments are gradually replaced by bone. The extra skeletal bone formation causes the person loss of mobility as the joint become affected. Overtime the person affected with FOP has difficulty difficulties breathing, speaking, and eating. Due to their eating problem they may experience malnutrition. Signs and symptoms of FOP can be observed as…

A disease is an illness or sickness with specific, well-defined symptoms that affects a person, plant or animal. One disease in particular that affects at least 25,000 people every year in the United States is osteogenesis imperfecta. Osteogenesis imperfecta, or more commonly known as “brittle bone disease” is a rare genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily generally from little or no apparent cause. Although some cases of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) are not as severe as…