Bones
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How to keep your bones strong—and even make them stronger
Our 206 bones do more than just keep us standing, walking, and singing through life. They also protect our organs, harbor bone marrow, and store minerals such as phosphorus and calcium. But just like your muscles, bones require maintenance work. Here’s how to keep them healthy for the long run.
Human bones don’t come ready at full strength. Instead, our bone density starts increasing shortly after birth and continues until we are about 30 years old. After that it plateaus until our 40s, when our skeleton begins to whither. For men, this process is a gradual one. For women, however, this occurs rapidly after menopause. If too much bone is lost, osteoporosis—a chronic disease that…
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Expert Advice: The Dynamic Duo D3 + K2
When you see vitamins D3 and K2 together in a single supplement, it’s meant for keeping your bones strong and healthy...
Your bones do more than you give them credit for
The skeleton is more than just a support system.
A Patient’s Guide to Bone and Joint Diseases
Bone & Joint Health Center News, Articles and Research from U.S. News & World Report.
Simple Ways to Improve Bone Health
Make small changes today and reduce the risk for damage and pain later.
Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular
Before a drug can be marketed, it has to go through rigorous testing to show it is safe and effective. Surgery, though, is different. The Food and Drug Administration does not regulate surgical procedures. So what happens when an operation is subjected to and fails the ultimate test — a clinical trial in which patients are randomly assigned to have it or not? The expectation is that medical practice will change if an operation turns out not to help. If only.
Bone Basics and Bone Anatomy
The skeleton of an adult human is made up of 206 bones of many different shapes and sizes. Added together, your bones make up about 15% of your body weight. Newborn babies are actually born with many more bones than this (around 300), but many bones grow together, or fuse, as babies become older. Some bones are long and thick, like your thigh bones. Others are thin, flat, and wide, like your shoulder blades.
How to keep your bones strong—and even make them stronger
Our 206 bones do more than just keep us standing, walking, and singing through life. They also protect our organs, harbor bone marrow, and store minerals such as phosphorus and calcium. But just like your muscles, bones require maintenance work. Here’s how to keep them healthy for the long run.
Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Joints
ÂJoints are the places in our bodies where bones meet. They roll, glide, rotate or bend like a simple hinge to let you run, jump and do the chicken dance. Joints come in different sizes, shapes and varieties, but all of them are susceptible to wear and tear, damage and arthritis.
Best Bones Forever
Best Bones Forever! is for girls ages 9-14! Grab your BFF and grow strong together, stay strong forever by eating foods with calcium and vitamin D and getting lots of physical activity!
Better Bones
Here on my website you'll find all the help you need. Tools to assess your risk factors. Lots of helpful articles and videos. A blog with the latest science and advice on bone health. Products I've carefully developed. And information on consultations if you'd like my individual guidance.
Bone and Joint Burden
The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States (BMUS) presents a compelling argument for greater understanding and expanding research. Using an objective scientific research design, BMUS measures the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions and projects trends. It presents the latest national data illuminating the physical and economic costs.
Bone and Joint Canada
Helping Canadians to improve and take control of their bone and joint (musculoskeletal) health through public education and awareness.
Bone and Joint Initiative
Patient, healthcare professional or researcher -- child, teen, adult or senior -- if you're visiting us to answer a question, to find information, or to participate in an activity, thank your bones and joints for bringing you here. Think about it: if the bones and joints in your body are strong and flexible, they move smoothly.
Bone Talks
Broken Bones, torn ligamnets, muscle strains, explained with pictures.
BoneSource
BoneSource®, NOF's professional program, promotes excellence in clinical care for all healthcare professionals involved in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of osteoporosis. Through the BoneSource website, we offer a variety of programs, tools, and resources to meet the unique needs of healthcare professionals who provide bone health care.
eOrthopod
...clear, understandable information about muscles, bones and joints.
Fractured Truth
If you have osteoporosis, it’s important to care for your bones. But there are a lot of misconceptions about osteoporosis, and your bones deserve more than a fractured truth. This is the place to get some facts and to learn more about bone health.
Own the Bone
The American Orthopaedic Association developed Own the Bone as a quality improvement program to address the osteoporosis treatment gap and prevent subsequent fragility fractures.
Rare Bone Disease Alliance
The Rare Bone Disease Alliance, originally created in 2006 as a patient advocacy network and called the Rare Bone Disease Network, has grown into a strong coalition focused on educating medical professionals, expanding research, and assisting patients and communities affected by rare bone diseases. The Alliance encourages professional, medical and scientific societies to expand their educational programs on rare bone disease and organizes its own meetings and workshops.
Spine-Health
Thousands of doctor written, doctor reviewed articles on back pain, neck pain, and related disorders; in-depth spine videos; vibrant discussion forums; doctor member profiles and online contact service; and more. Accurate, complete, unbiased health information you can trust.
SpineUniverse
SpineUniverse is the most trusted source of quality, doctor-written information on spine health. Our leading spine experts are here to help you find relief today from your back pain, neck pain, or other spine condition. Browse our exhaustive video library, get tips on back pain exercises, and visit our Community section to discuss your pain.
American Bone Health
American Bone Health teaches people how to build and keep strong and healthy bones for life with practical and up-to-date information and resources to engage, educate and empower them to prevent bone loss, osteoporosis and fractures.
BodyZone.com
BodyZone.com promotes intelligent mind and body LifeHabits including StrongPosture™ exercise, chiropractic, massage, nutrition, yoga and more to help you.
Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health
The Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health (G-MUSC) is a network of national and international patient, professional, scientific organisations around the world. G-MUSC is focused on health policy and evidence, with a mandate to develop strategies and set the agenda, aimed at improving quality of life for individuals around the world by implementing effective prevention and treatment through its unified voice and global reach.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases.
Ortho Bullets
Orthobullets.com is an educational resource for orthopaedic surgeons designed to improve through the communal efforts of those who use it as a learning resource. It is a simple but powerful concept.
OrthoGate
The mission of OrthoGate is to improve orthopedic care, education and research using Internet technologies. We facilitate access to orthopedic information for professionals and patients using the Internet and strive to improve the quality of orthopedic information and musculoskeletal health on the Internet by providing a gateway.
OrthoInfo
OrthoInfo is a trusted source of information about musculoskeletal conditions and injuries – how they are treated, as well as how they can be prevented. Our articles and videos are developed by orthopaedic surgeons who are members of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. All of the content on our website is peer-reviewed by physician members of the OrthoInfo Editorial Board who are experts in their fields.
Orthopedics News
Comprehensive website covering the field of orthopedics.
Simple Tasks
The Simple Tasks campaign aims to elevate the importance of rheumatology, increase understanding of the work of rheumatologists, and lay a foundation of awareness and understanding that creates support for more favorable public policy.
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