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    Introduction Finger fractures are breaks in any of the bones of the fingers. What are the causes? Traumatic injury is the main cause of finger fractures. These can include: Injuries while playing sports. Workplace injuries. Falls. What increases the risk? Activities that can increase your risk of finger fractures include: Sports. Workplace activities that involve machinery. A condition called osteoporosis, which can make your bones less dense and cause them to fracture more easily. What are the…

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    makes your bones strong? It also reduces heartburn, and it has the perfect things people need like nutriants and vitamins. It helps us get skinny and it is also recomended by doctors for a ot of various reasons. One reason is it can make peoples bones strong. It has been a recomendation by doctors that if people want to have strong bones, they should drink 3 cups of milk everyday, also when they have weak bones they should drink milk because it has calcium, which that will make your bones big…

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    regulation. The adult human skeletal system consists of 206 bones, as well as a network of tendons, ligaments and cartilage that connects them. The skeletal system performs vital functions — support, movement, protection, blood cell production, calcium storage and endocrine regulation — that enable us to survive. Muscles connect to your skeleton and they contract and move the skeleton along. Your skeletal system is made up of cartilage and calcified bone that work together. They help the process…

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    If one were to look at the skeletal structure of a whale one could see a bone structure that would fit a less aquatic mammal with there being clear kneebones in sight and also leg bones built units every devolvement these bones may have lost their effectiveness but the whale genome still is programmed to produce these bones the same comparison can be made with humans as well if one would look at a human that has been agitated for 4 weeks there is a clear tail but said tail is lost during later…

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    Web silks from spiders may hold the key on how to repair human bones, according to the researchers at the University of California San Diego and the University of Texas. The study also discovered a specific gene that may initiate biomineralization in human stem cells. Initiating biomineralization can activate bone formation which leads to bone regeneration or osteoregeneration. Biomineralization is a biological process which allows an organism to produce minerals. These minerals are often used…

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    Osteoporosis Case Study

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    Alissa Stevens MED 2047 Osteoporosis Instructor Michelle Earixson-Lamonthe 3/12/2015 VNFT031 Osteoporosis is the cause of more than 8.9 million fractures annually, which results in an osteoporotic fracture every 3 seconds worldwide (Johnell, 2006). Making Osteoporosis a severe musculoskeletal disease. We will cover any the expected findings, signs and symptoms that you will find upon your assessment. It will also cover the routes of treatments, medications and preventive measures…

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    Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones. The word osteoporosis means “porous bone.” It is a metabolic bone disorder which means that the rate of bone breakdown, which is called resorption, speeds up while the rate of bone formation slows down causing a loss of bone mass. In other words, osteoporosis happens when you lose too much bone, make too little bone, or even both. As a result of losing bone mass, your bones become weak and may break from a minor fall. For example, your bones may break due…

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    Tissues In The Human Body

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    class of connective tissue system is chondroblast, which is an immature cell consists of a cell growing cartilage tissue. Then, the osteoblast states as a cell in which the mature bone cell is developed. It derives from fibroblast as osteoblast forming into a mature state; it will associate with the production of bone. The last class of connective tissue is hemocytoblast defines as the development of any type of blood during embryonic…

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    Cranial Deformation Essay

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    were shaped with wooden boards. Image: Fruitpunchline/Wikimedia Commons Introduction The first cranial deformations may have been by accident. Infants are born with lots of different bones in their skulls, which enables them to exit the womb more easily and for their brains to grow. By age five, the gaps between the bones start to combine together to make the skull more contiguous, like we see in adults. It’s easy to opine that a baby with a soft skull that lies for a long time while his mother…

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    Achilles Tenon Analysis

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    The Achilles tendon is located at the back part of the heel. The tendon receives blood supply from three sources: the musculo-tendinous junction, the paratenon and distally at the tendon insertion to the bone. (Karlsson 2015) The Achilles joins the heel bone to your calf muscles, with its main purpose is plantar flexion, which is the bending of the foot downwards at the ankle. The average age of a person suffering this injury is twenty-nine to forty with a large majority of all patients being…

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