Essay On Osteomyelitis

Osteopetrosis is a rare, genetic disease that causes extremely dense and brittle bones. This is because individuals affected with osteopetrosis do not have normal osteoclasts, which bones need to work correctly. Healthy bones require properly functioning osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Osteoblasts are responsible for making new bones and osteoclasts are bone cells that are responsible for bone resorption, which is the breaking down of bones and providing space for new bone marrow to grow. An individual with osteopetrosis has osteoclasts that do not function properly, therefore their bones are not healthy (Stocks, Wang, Thompson, Stocks, & Horwitz, 1998).

Last September, my injury never fully got better from ballet. So, in March I heard my knee “pop” and, I could not walk on it. I was on crutches for 5 days due to the pain. I had to wear an ugly knee brace everyday and used a lot of ice. The physical therapist thought I might have torn something in my knee. I was happy to find out that nothing was torn in my knee after all.

I have enjoyed reading your post, Kerry. I found your comment on Osteomyelitis informative and thought provoking. As you have stated, Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone that may start in the bone or may be a result of an infection that has started elsewhere in the body and traveled through the blood stream to the bone. Osteomyelitis may be difficult to treat as it is sometimes located deep in the bone. Osteomyelitis most likely affects long bones in children while affect the vertebrae in adults. Diabetics may develop osteomyelitis in their feet. Osteomyelitis may be difficult to treat; however, it may be treated successfully with strong intravenous antibiotics combined with surgery (Arias, Betancur, Pinzón, Arango, & Prada, 2015). Risk

OA is a musculoskeletal disease that causes chronic joint pain and reduced physical functioning (Laba, brien, Fransen, & jan, 2013). Osteoarthritis (OA) is a non-inflammatory disorder of synovial joints that results in loss of hyaline cartilage and remodeling of surrounding bone. OA is the single most common joint disease, with an estimated prevalence of 60% in men and 70% in women later in life after the age of 65 years, affecting an estimated 40 million people in the United States (Goodman & Fuller, 2009). Women are more commonly affected after the age of 55, almost everyone has some symptoms by the age of 70 (Tan, Zahara, Colburn & Hawkins, 2013, p.78). Osteoarthritis can be described radiological, clinical, or subjective.

Vitamin intake is a commonly overlooked necessity in basic nutritional health. What most people do not know is that certain vitamin deficiencies can cause many health risks and problems. Many people believe that are getting all the vitamins they need from their diet, however most of the time they are not. One of the most common vitamin deficiencies is the low intake of Vitamin D. There are some vitamins that are produced by the body such as vitamin K; however some of the most important vitamins are not produced by the body. Vitamin D is one of the vitamins that our body needs to function correctly that is not naturally produced by the body. Vitamin D can be consumed through

The doctor explained that my ankle was severely sprained and I must wear a cast for a month and complete a month of physical therapy. My recital was coming up soon and according to my doctor, I had no chance of dancing in it, I was devastated. Prior to my cast, I worked through a month of therapy in one week. I returned to the doctor and was cleared to dance the day before my recital. I was beyond thankful to finally dance again.

Chronic osteomyelitis is an intractable infection of the bone associated with the destruction of bone tissues and vascular channels 1-4) . The destruction of vascular channels leaves a portion of dead and infected bone (sequestrum) detached from the adjoining healthy bone and surrounded by avascular soft tissue. Impaired vascularity prevents antibiotics to be delivered to the lesion viathe intravenous route. Therefore, chronic osteomyelitis cannot be eradicated without a radical surgical debridement of the sequestrum. Since adequate debridement is down to the living bone, the debridement can leave a large avascular dead space that must be managed to prevent infection recurrence before tissue reconstruction.

Bones can become infected with Osteomyelitis through the blood stream by an open fracture or surgical wound. “Only two out of every 10,000 people acquire Osteomyelitis in a lifetime. The condition affects children and adults but in different ways. Certain conditions and behaviors can weaken the immune system increasing an individual’s risk of obtaining Osteomyelitis such a diabetes mellitus, alcoholism, hemodialysis, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell anemia, or a lack of blood supply (www.wedmd.com). In children, Osteomyelitis is usually acute and very easy to treat showing signs in the bones of the arms and legs. In adults, Osteomyelitis can also be acute or chronic and can persist due to a reoccurring medical

Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone and bone marrow that can occur in any bone in the body, however, is more commonly seen in the long bones, the spine, and the foot bones of a diabetic. Osteomyelitis typically begins as an infection of the medullary cavity, quickly extends to the periosteum, and settles in the calcified portion of the bone. Even with the significant advances in diagnosing and treating these types of infections, long bone osteomyelitis still presents a variety of challenges and remains difficult to treat. The severity of the disease is staged depending upon the infection’s particular features, including its etiology, pathogenesis, extent of bone involvement, duration and host factors

Osteomyelitis is an infection in a bone. Infections can reach a bone by traveling through the bloodstream or spreading from nearby. Infection can also begin in the bone itself if an injury exposes the bone to germs. Signs and symptoms are fever or chills, pain in the area of infection, swelling, warmth, redness over the area of infection. Most people require surgery to remove parts of the bone that have died. The next step is to treat with strong antibiotics, delivered through IV, for a long period of time (mayo clinic, 2015) My patient was admitted due to the same signs and symptoms pain, swelling, redness in the right posterior

Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are both, obviously, some of the many forms of arthritis. According to my Health Science teacher’s marvelous powerpoint, Osteoarthritis is “a progressive roughening of normally smooth cartilage, eventually wearing it away,” and Rheumatoid Arthritis is “an autoimmune disorder where the body’s immune system attacks healthy joint tissues.” The major difference between Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis is the way they are brought on, or caused. Osteoarthritis is more self-inflicted than Rheumatoid Arthritis. To elaborate, Osteoarthritis is caused by one’s overuse of a certain joint and some of the many risk factors of this are: being overweight, aging, and joint injury. Rheumatoid Arthritis, however, cannot be

The number of patients with osteoporosis arthritis is less than that of those with psoriatic arthritis. This is because psoriatic affects any age while osteoporosis comes due to aging making that the only difference. The treatment of both types of arthritis is similar. Psoriatic arthritis affects the joints and when it become chronic it forms a scaly skin around the area where that joint is. Osteoporosis is caused by cartilage reduction between the joints, making them start gridding against each other leading to joint pain. The symptoms of both osteoporosis and psoriatic are: joint pain, stiffness of the joint, swelling, pain and redness in the eyes.

According to the most recent evidence, there is a direct link between chronic inflammation and certain types of cancer. Inflammation generally occurs due to a bacterial or viral infection, such as a chronic bladder infection, which over time may be more susceptible to bladder cancer. This is especially true for individuals who are overweight or obese, or exhibit disorders like diabetes, hepatitis A and B, HIV/AIDS, and other bacterial/viral disorders.

The second patient, a 30 year old female, experienced pain and stiffness in her left hip/lower limb. This started in this patient at eight months old and has continued ever since. After doing a radiograph and a CT they found that there was cortical hyperostosis that involved the left iliac bone and extended into the left femur. It also involved the knee crossing the intervening joint, the left tibia, and the tarsal bones. Visually they saw osteoarthritis changes occurring with the patient's hip joint. Additionally they found bone islands located on her left femur, tibia, and patella. Bone islands benign bone tumors that are mostly encountered as an incidental and asymptomatic finding; they are suggestive of coexisting osteopoikilosis.

Osteomyelitis is a bone infection and inflammation of the bone and bone marrow (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2014). For a normal human the bones are usually resistant to infections. However, bone infection can spread in a variety of ways; a severe puncture wound can catch a nearby infection and spread deep inside to the body, and can travel through the bloodstream and weakened part of a bone, can also occur with a direct contamination due to a broken bone. Two out of every 10,000 people have osteomyelitis; if the condition is left untreated the infection can become severe and can lead to blood loss in the bone, eventually death of the bone tissue. Today osteomyelitis is a treatable condition, for most people surgery is required to withdraw the dead parts of the bone from the body (Chihara & Lalani, 2012).