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The Musculoskeletal System

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What is musculoskeletal system?
The musculoskeletal system, also known as the locomotor system, is the system which involves around the body’s structure and the movement of bones via the use of muscles in the body. This system has many parts such as muscles, bone structure, ligaments, cartilage, tendons, joints and other connective tissues involved in this system.
Structure of the bones
The bones are one of the most important structures in the musculoskeletal system as it supports the body, provides the body a form and provides stability. There are 206 bones in the body which protects the vital organs such as the heart, lungs and other vital organs as well as the skull which protects the brain. Bones also allows the body to store minerals and within a bone there is bone marrow located in the middle of the bone and this produces white blood cells (WBC), red blood cells (RBC) and platelets. The types of bones are skull, spine, chest, arms, legs, hands, pelvis, and feet.
Types of Joints …show more content…

There are 3 types of bones in human body, the fibrous, cartilaginous and the synovial joint. The fibrous joints are immovable such as the skull and are held together by ligaments. The cartilaginous joint is partially movable such as the vertebrates in our spine and their connection with one and another and can classified into 2 types of cartilaginous joints, synchondroses and sympheses. Synchondroses joints are joints that are temporary joints that are found in children until the end of puberty while sympheses joints are permanent joints such as the pubic symphesis. Synovial joints are joints that a freely movable such as the 6 common known joints in our body, which

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