growth-+Repair

GROWTH/REPAIR

GROWTH Our bones contain cells and tissues, such as blood and nerves. Also because your bones cells are alive they from they form new tissues in your bone which makes it grow bigger and stronger. But even after you've grown bones still from different tissues. An example would be say if you are playing soccer your bones absorb the force of your weight.

When a baby is born it's bones are not yet fused together that is why baby's have more bones then adult's. But when you get older you lose some of your bones because they fuse together or connect. On the sides of your head right in front of your ears it is on both sides of your head. It is called your temple. This part of your body is very delicate. Say for example you get hit in the temple with a baseball you could be knocked out for about 30 minutes. The temple is were your skull fused together with your jaw.

To make your bones stronger you could exercise to help make your bones stronger. Also another thing you could do is drink milk. The milk can help you develop and make your bones stronger because the milk contains calcium which helps your bones grow.

REPAIR

Bones can be injured by falling on the ground or twisting your bone the wrong way. When bones are broken a doctor will look at the bone at take a picture of it with a X-ray machine. The doctor will then think about giving you a splint or a cast it depends of how bad the injury is hurt.

They take blood samples so they can see what is in the blood. Also they could test there pulse to make sure the heartbeat is nice and steady.

When you break a bone that means part of the bone broke off from what the bone is connecting to. When you fracture something it is not as bad as you would to break a bone because breaking a bone causes more damage but a fracture is when you chipped your bone just a little bit.

When you break a bone it usually means that you would get a cast so you can't bend or flex your foot. It helps the bone healing properly because if you don't get a cast for a broken bone and your moving your foot it would take longer to heal. when you get a fracture you usually end up with a splint cause the bone isn't hurt as much if you were to break your bone