Science of Bone - Bone Functions
This bone function provides scaffolding for the body and gives structure.
What is Support?
Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Avascular Necrosis are common examples of this.
What are disorders or diseases of bone?
This is another, more technical, term for joint replacement.
What is Arthroplasty?
This the term for the surgical position in which a patient is lying on their back.
What is the Supine surgical position?
This imaging modality is most likely to be used to identify a bone fracture.
What is X-ray?
This bone functions serves as an attachment point for muscles. Some support and some transmit forces. Bones act as levers and joints serve as fulcrums.
What is Movement?
Scoliosis, a coxa vara hip and osteogenesis imperfecta are all examples of this kind of bone disorder or abnormality.
What is Congenital?
This is the name of a surgical procedure that uses small cameras and equipment to visualize, diagnose and treat problems inside a joint.
What is Arthroscopy?
This is the most common patient position used for shoulder surgery.
What is Beach chair?
This imaging modality subjects patients to higher doses of radiation than X-ray.
What is Fluoroscopy?
This bone function surrounds or covers internal organs to protect them from injury.
What is Protection?
When the gap between two bone fragments is too large for bone to bridge without assistance, this may be necessary.
What is bone grafting?
This is a method of holding bone fragments in proper position with metal plates, pins or screws while the bone is healing after fracture. Hardware is internal and typically stays in place.
What is internal fixation?
This is the position most likely to be used for a patient undergoing abdominal surgery.
What is Supine?
This type of imaging modality is ideal for imaging soft tissues.
What is an MRI?
For this bone function, bone acts as a reservoir for minerals important to bodily function, such as calcium and phosphorus.
What is Storage?
Autograft, Allograft, Synthetic graft and Xenograft are commonly used types of this.
What are types of bone graft?
This is a procedure to join bones surgically in order to prevent movement of a joint.
What is Arthrodesis?
The image below depicts a patient lying in this surgical position.
What is Prone?
This imaging equipment measures bone mineral density.
What is a DEXA scan?
For this bone function, new blood cells are produced in marrow, which is housed in many bones.
What is Blood cell formation?
This type of bone graft is taken from the same species.
What is Allograft?
This type of surgery uses smaller incisions, decreases scarring, lessens tissue trauma and has the potential for more rapid recovery, but visibility and access to the operative site is more difficult/restricted.
Minimally invasive
The image below depicts a patient lying in this surgical position.
What is Sitting?
X-ray and CT utilize ionizing radiation. MRI uses these two technologies to image protons.
What are magnetic field and radio waves?