The Skeletal System
Functions
The Skeletal System provides structure and shape to our body, supports our weight to stand up against gravity, protects our vital organs, enables us to move by providing attachment points for muscles, and produces new blood cells in the bone marrow.
The Main Parts
The Skeletal System consists mainly of all the bones, ligaments, and joints in our bodies.
Working With Other Body Systems
The body Systems of different functions must work together to keep your body healthy and alive. Two of the many body systems that the Skeletal System works with are the Muscular and the Integumentary Systems. The muscles in the Muscular System work with the Skeletal System to provide a movable frame for the body by the muscles contracting and relaxing to move the bones. The Skeletal System and the Integumentary system work together by perming different functions that both protect our inner organs.
Medical Conditions
Osteoporosis is one of the many diseases found in the Skeletal System, and is more common in the elderly. It results in the loss of bone tissue. In osteoporosis, bone loses calcium, becomes thinner, and may disappear completely.
Another medical disorder is scoliosis, a side-to-side curve in the back or spine, often creating a 'C' or 'S' shape when viewed on an x-ray of the spine. This condition is typically forms during adolescence.
Arthritis is a group of more than 100 inflammatory diseases that damage joints and their surrounding structures. Arthritis can attack joints, joint capsules, or the surrounding tissue. It usually affects the joints of the shoulders, neck, lower back, hands, hips, or knees.
While leukemia is a cancer that mainly affects blood, the skeletal system is also affected since the cancer starts in the marrow of the bone. With this type of cancer, abnormal white blood cells multiply uncontrollably, affecting the production of normal white blood cells and red blood cells.
Bone cancer is another disease of the skeletal system. It can start in the bones or spread there from another part of the body.
Another medical disorder is scoliosis, a side-to-side curve in the back or spine, often creating a 'C' or 'S' shape when viewed on an x-ray of the spine. This condition is typically forms during adolescence.
Arthritis is a group of more than 100 inflammatory diseases that damage joints and their surrounding structures. Arthritis can attack joints, joint capsules, or the surrounding tissue. It usually affects the joints of the shoulders, neck, lower back, hands, hips, or knees.
While leukemia is a cancer that mainly affects blood, the skeletal system is also affected since the cancer starts in the marrow of the bone. With this type of cancer, abnormal white blood cells multiply uncontrollably, affecting the production of normal white blood cells and red blood cells.
Bone cancer is another disease of the skeletal system. It can start in the bones or spread there from another part of the body.
Fun Facts
Every bone is connected to another in the human body, with one exception; the hyoid, a horseshoe shaped bone in your throat. It is the only bone in the human body that isn't connected to another bone.
Infants are born with 300 different bones in their bodies, while adults only have 206. This is because over time, the extra bones in an infant fuse together, reducing the variety in bones.
The amount of bones in an adult's hands and feet makes up more than half of the bones in their entire bodies! The hands and feet combined have 106 bones, while the whole body has 206.
Infants are born with 300 different bones in their bodies, while adults only have 206. This is because over time, the extra bones in an infant fuse together, reducing the variety in bones.
The amount of bones in an adult's hands and feet makes up more than half of the bones in their entire bodies! The hands and feet combined have 106 bones, while the whole body has 206.