Case Study - Skeletal System

A 65 - year - old woman slipped outside her house. She was unable to move her left foot and was very painful. She was later diagnosed as a hip fracture and brought to the operating room. She underwent surgery to insert a needle into the broken bone. Then bone scan shows decrease in bone density

* The pelvis (pelvic girdle) consists of two symmetrical hip bones, humerus and coccyx

* The bones of each hip consists of three parts, humerus, ischium and pubic bone. During adolescence, they fuse together to form a single bone. The fusion point is a deep cup type socket called acetabulum (femoral head + acetabular = hip joint)

Duarte 1 Leonie Duarte January 9, 2017 DeLisle Anatomy and Physiology Controversy Bone: Skeletal System Case Study An 80-year-old woman stood in a stupid way from the stool where she stepped on her legs twisted her legs twisted A can on the top shelf. The pain was concentrated on her waist, and she could not put up with it anymore after she fell on the floor. When taken to the emergency room, the X-ray showed a femoral neck fracture. When finding a more detailed X-ray image, we found that the damaged femoral head and neck, the other long bone ends of the body, and the bone mass of the vertebrae are decreasing. The doctor concludes that surgery is necessary to repair the femoral fracture and the biopsy of the bone tissue shows that the bone composition is normal. The fractured femur is slowly recovering

It is not a secret that the skeletal system is an important part of the body. The bones that make up the skeletal system are responsible for movement, protection, and of course the skeleton of the body. Bones depend on nutrients such as calcium, vitamin D, magnesium etc. When bone weakens and can no longer function properly, this is called osteoporosis. There are many diseases affecting the bone / skeletal system, but osteoporosis has earned the worst reputation. - Osteoporosis is a fragile bone condition, leaving it unprotected increases the likelihood of injury, immobility, and death. It affects men and women of all races, but osteoporosis is very common for postmenopausal women over 5 years of age. This happens when a new bone is not created to delete the old bone. Therefore, as Mayo Clinic said, "even light stress such as bending and cough can cause hips, wrists, spinal fractures, etc."