How Bones Affects The Human Body

Osteoporosis Osteoporosis, meaning porous bone from the Greek language, is bone disease that gradually and steadily wears down bone tissue and its living cells. This wearing down will eventually cause the cells of bone tissue to degrade and die, leaving their “scaffolding” to be the only things only bone together. Without living cells to take up a home in this scaffolding, minor injuries such as falls, bumping into objects, and pressure that would normally be completely and would not pose any threat to bone tissue suddenly becomes a real hazard that can easily pose a threat to one’s well-being. Osteoporosis affects a person skeletal system.

The musculoskeletal system provides support for the body as it provides protection, protecting the body from any possible damage. The limbs of the body, e.g. arms, legs, hips and shoulders help support and keep the body held up. Many other bones support different parts of the body such as the rib cage supports and protects all the organs which are located inside the rib cage, such as the heart, lungs, kidneys and others. The shape of the skeleton allows us to cope with

With out the support we wouldn’t be able to function in the right way. The skeletal system is very important because of the bones that are found in our body, nearly all bones hold our vital organs in place whilst you are moving.

Bones possess five important functions including, support, protection, movement, storage and blood cell formation (Marieb, 2012). Bones protect and support the body by acting as a rigid framework surrounding delicate organs and tolerating enormous pressure when weight bearing and moving (Marieb, 2012). Bones are also responsible for storing fat, minerals and producing blood cells (hematopoiesis) within the cavities of bone marrow (McCance & Huether, 2014) (Marieb,

The cardiovascular and skeletal systems serve several vital bodily functions. Both systems work jointly to protect, and support the body. The collarbone, ribs, tibia, and humerus are a few bones in your skeletal system. In sum your body has 206 bones. These bones provide structure and shape and protect the body’s internal organs. More importantly it produces blood for use by the cardiovascular system via bone marrow.

How the Nervous System is Connected to the Other Systems Skeletal System: -Our bones provide calcium that is needed for the proper functioning of the nervous system

Bones are living tissues. They provide support, protect organs, contain multiple minerals, and store the marrow that creates cells for our entire body. Bones consist of compact bone, cancellous bone, osteoblasts, osteocytes, osteoclasts, osteoid, and inorganic salts. Compact bone is a dense bone tissue that makes up eighty percent of the human skeleton. It is made of primarily of inorganic salts, which produce bone hardness, and contains tiny spaces for osteocytes. Matured compact bone is layered, it contains vascular canals that provide necessary blood supply for osteocytes. Cancellous bone makes up the remaining twenty percent of the human skeleton. It is lightweight and porous, allowing small spaces for bone marrow and blood vessels.

• Osteoporosis – it affects joints and bones and the bones can break easily. The bones in the spine wrist and hip are the ones which may be affected particularly in women. Why are women most affected? During pregnancy, calcium is needed for the growing baby, if the mother isn’t getting enough; calcium is drawn from her bones. Between the age of 40 to 50 years, bones start to weaken and bone thinning may occur on the outer shell of your bones. To curb weakened bones, it’s crucial to include in your diet adequate calcium, vitamin D and take part in weight bearing exercises; taking calcium and vitamin D in all your meals aids in building and maintaining strong bones.

Human Bones-Remodeling and Repair Bones are constantly growing and expanding; they are undergoing replacement and remodeling. It is obvious that during childhood our bones grow, the long bones (those in the arms, legs, and back) grow at the ends of the bones, while the flat bones (like those in our skulls) have a different pattern of growth. What many people do not know is that our bones are constantly growing and changing from the time we are born until we die. The process is microscopic, constant and inconspicuous. When a bone breaks; however, the remodeling and repair process is faster and much more noticeable after a bone is broken. When a bone breaks there are a series of happenings that our body undergoes in order to repair and remodel.

The skeletal system is made up of 206 bones. All of these 206 bones help the body to perform the following functions: framework, protection, levers, production of blood cells, and storage. These functions work in very important ways. For example the framework helps support the body's muscles, fat, and skin. (Simmers) Protection also helps the vital organs be protected by the converse of bones. Levers connect everything together. Because there

Abstract. Bone loss usually starts after maturation and accelerates in osteoporotic bones. It is known that in healthy adults, the number of osteocytes decreases with aging. On the other hand, it has been reported, based on experimental findings, that osteoporotic patients have a greater osteocyte density than healthy mature adults. Based on a semi-mechanistic bone remodeling theory, and knowing that osteocyte density increases in osteoporotic patients, and decreases in healthy adults as they age, this study investigated if the reduction in osteocyte density, in healthy adults, and in osteocyte mechanosensitysensitivity, in osteoporotic bones can correctly predict bone density loss as we age. A two- dimensional finite element model of spongy bone was developed in order to simulate bone remodeling. Simulation results indicated that the semi-mechanistic model used in this investigation can satisfactorily explain the bone loss in healthy adults and in osteoporotic patients.

Osseous tissue provides essential functions in the body. It protects our vital organs and the bone marrow within this tissue provides our bodies with blood cell production needed to support our other internal organs. Ligaments connect our bones together by joints to allow for our bodies flexibility. In essence, if we didn't have bones, we wouldn't have the proper blood cell production to support our other organs. Without bones we wouldn't have the proper protection against damage to our internal organs. without bones we wouldn't have the muscles and ligaments to allow us to have flexibility. In whole, without bones we would have no way to move to take care of ourselves. We would have no way to protect our internal organs from damage. Most importantly,

Our bones provide the structure which helps us stand instead of lying like a puddle on the floor. Other bones protect the delicate insides of our body. Without bones, you'd just be a puddle of skin and guts on the floor. There would no walking, no standing up, and no protection for internal organs. If it weren't for our skeleton, we wouldn't be able to move properly. Bones also have muscles attached to them, so in a way, muscles would be useless without bones. Bones store most of the minerals that the human body needs to function. Bone marrow stores essential fatty acids that the body uses for energy, as well as heavy metals and toxins, keeping them away from organs until they can be released from the body as waste.

Bone serves the organism at multiple levels: As a system, bones permit the organism to locomote effectively and to maintain posture by bearing loads without deformation, by providing rigid attachment sites for muscles and acting as a system of levers to amplify small movements. As an organ, bones protect the viscera and house the hemopoietic tissue (red marrow). As a tissue, bones serve as a reservoir of readily mobilizable calcium, an

Have you ever thought about how humans would be without bones? They would not be able to function the way that they do now if it did not have bones. The skeletal system is a highly important system in the human body, it functions as support, protection, and creation of red blood cells. This system is composed of bones and joints, an average adult contains 206 bone and an average child contains 270 bones because as a person grows the bones fuse together to create a single bone. The skeletal system is divided in to two major category: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The axial skeleton has 80 bones in the midline axis which contains the bones of the head and the trunk; while the appendicular axis has 126 bones which include the bones from the limbs, pectoral and pelvic regions. There are only a few select bones that are mainly affected by the Paget disease these include the pelvis and the tibia which belong to the appendicular axis; however, other bones that could be affected are the femur, spine, skull, clavicle, and fibula.