Bone Voyage
The bones in the extremities of the body such as the arms and legs.
What are long bones?
The other term for joint that means the place of union between two or more bones.
Articulation
An adult human stands a little taller knowing that their vertebral column is made up of this many vertebrae.
What are 26 vertebrae?
The doctor you will see to mend your broken arm.
What is an orthopedist?
The lateral curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?
The bones that are nearly equal in length and width such as the bones of the wrist.
What are short bones?
Decreasing the angle of a joint.
What is flexion?
The lowest (and last) portion of the vertebral column also known as a tailbone.
What is the coccyx?
You have overstretched your achilles tendon indicating that you likely have this injury.
Crippling deformities caused by inflammation in joints.
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
Another name for the ankle bones.
What are tarsal bones?
Pointing the toes.
What is plantar flexion?
You can find the skull, rib cage, and vertebral column as part of this skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?
The broken femur protruding from the skin would be considered this type of fracture.
What is a compound or open fracture?
A rupture of the vertebral disk's center through its outer edge will surely cause you pain. numbness or weakness is one or both legs.
What is a herniated or slipped disc?
These bones provide broad surfaces for muscular attachment such as the shoulder blades.
What are flat bones?
Contains synovial fluid that protects the joint.
What is the joint capsule?
The bones that make up vertebrae that cannot be classified as short or long.
What are irregular bones?
My broken rib injured my lung because it is this type of fracture.
What is a complicated fracture?
This injury coined one of the most common collegiate athlete injuries will affect the use of your lower extremity/extremities.
What is an ACL or anterior cruciate ligament injury?
Contains the bones of the upper and lower limbs and their girdles.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
A slightly movable joint such as intervertebral discs.
What is an amphiarthosis?
The five sections of the adult human vertebral column.
What are cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx?
If you know the innominate bone, you know that these three bones make it up.
What are the ilium, the ischium, and the pubis?
Loss of muscle tone to passive stretching can be blamed on this.
What is hypotonia?