Your skeletal system is to your body what wood and bricks are to a house. With a strong foundation, your body is designed to do a multitude of amazing tasks, from running to giving birth. Learn about the skeletal system and some unique trivia you might never have known about the bones, cartilage, and ligaments that make up your skeletal system. Inside your body are bones. Each bone plays a very important role in making all the mechanics of your body function properly. You may think of bone as a hard, dense material, but only one type of bone is like this. This dense, hard bone is called cortical bone.

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Do you know why we have bones? Babies have about bones when they are born, but some fuse together to form the final adult bones. Your skeleton stops you being all floppy, acting like a scaffold to hold up the soft tissues of your body. The spine is a good example of part of the skeleton with a supportive role. Place your hands on the centre of your back, can you feel your spine? It holds up your head and allows your body to bend. The spine also protects the spinal cord which runs through the centre. Can you thread some cotton reels onto a piece of string? This is a bit like your backbone.
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Your skeleton, the framework of the human body, is what gives your body structure, lets you move, protects your internal organs and more. Throughout our lives, our bones are either growing up until age 25 or replenishing. Our bones help us out every day, so why not learn a little more about them? Your body is made of more than bones. There are bones in the human body. However, babies are born with bones…how is that? You may be wondering if an adult has bones in the body, where do all of the bones go?
After performing a gymnast-like vault out of his crib at 18 months and moving at a warp-speed no adult could maintain from the moment he could walk, my son Luke was what some may have called high-energy. He was the child I assumed would have a frequent-flyer card at our local hospital. Yet somehow, he has managed to make it to age 15 injury-free touch wood. His sisters, on the other hand, while also active just not at the Flash-like pace of their brother have had several visits to the fracture clinic with sports-related injuries. Breaking a bone is a common occurrence in childhood. As safe as we try to keep our children, accidents can happen in numerous ways and locations. At home, children trip over toys or fall off of couches. At the park or in the school yard, kids fall off monkey bars or a scooter or bike. Broken bones can definitely be scary for kids as well as their parents.