Bones!
The largest bone in the body
What is the femur?
What is the axial skeleton?
This protects your bones from rubbing together at the joints
What is cartilage?
This type of injury refers to a break in your bone
What is a fracture?
This type of joint can be found at your shoulders and hips
What is a ball and socket joint?
What are the phalanges?
This part of the bone produces blood cells
What is the marrow?
This connects your muscle to your bones
What are tendons?
This type of injury occurs when you have swelling in a joint
What is a sprain?
This type of joint can be found at your elbows and knees
What is a hinge joint?
The heel bone
What is the calcaneus?
This portion of the bones is the most dense is the second outermost layer
What is the compact bone?
This connects bones to other bones
What are ligaments?
This type of injury occurs from inflammation and stiffness in your joints
What is arthritis?
This type of joint does not move
What is a fixed immovable joint?
The bone the ribs are connected to by cartilage
This layer of bone has empty spaces and lies beneath the dense portion of the bone
What is the spongy bone?
The medial bone in your forearm
What is the ulna?
This problem results in curvature of the spine
What is scoliosis?
This type of joint occurs when one bone sits atop another, allowing free movement
What is a pivot joint?
There are 26 of these irregular bones in the body
What are the vertebrae?
The outermost layer of the bone
What is the periosteum?
The region of your spinal column that we often refer to as our neck
Cervical region
What is a gliding joint?