Strong Muscles!

                                                             Muscles

Types of Muscles:

• Smooth Muscles-The brain tells these muscles what to do without us thinking about it. They tighten up and relax food in your stomach and digestive system to allow the food to make its way through the body. If your sick your smooth muscles push food back out of the stomach to the esophagus (food pipe) and out of the mouth. This is called barf, vomit, puke, and/or throw up. Smooth muscles allow us to hold urine(pee) until you get to the bathroom. They also push the urine out. Smooth muscles can be found in a woman's uterus, also called a womb, is where the baby forms. Smooth muscles help push the baby out. Smooth muscles help our eyes say focused.
• Cardiac Muscles-The Cardiac muscle is also called the myocardium. The thick muscles of the heart allowing it to pump blood out and then relax to let blood back in again. Cardiac muscles work with no help from us.
• Skeletal Muscles-Skeletal Muscles are the type of muscles we would think about.They are the ones that show how strong we are.We can control our skeletal muscles.An example is if you don't want to kick a soccer ball, you don't have to kick it.These muscles are apart of the muscular skeletal system.The system is a combination of bones and skeletal muscles. Skeletal muscles are mostly attached to one end of a bone. Tendons hold bones and muscles together.

Fun Facts:

• Human bodies have over 600 muscles.
• Muscles are made of elastic tissue
• Each muscle is made of thousand to ten thousand fibers

Source:https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/muscles.html

My Body

                                      Children and Bones!   

      What is a Broken Bone?

A broken bone also called a fracture, is when a break goes through part or all of a bone.

How do Broken Bones happen?

Broken bones mostly happen from kids falls or while playing sports.

What are the types of Fractures?

• A greenstick fracture: a break on one side of the bone only
• A buckle or torus: an outward bend on one side of the bone without breaking the other side
• An avulsion fracture: when a tendon or ligament pulls off of a tiny piece of bone
• A growth plate fracture: a break in the area of a child or teen's growing bone
• A stress fracture: a tiny crack in the bone
• A communited Fracture: a bone breaks into more than two pieces
• A compression fracture: a collapsing of the bone

What are the signs of a broken bone?

If you have a broken bone you will be in severe pain,you will have swelling and bruising too.If you break a bone you won't be able to put weight on the limb.When you break a bone you may hear a snapping sound,and you may feel something grinding inside of you.

How do bones heal?

After a few days after the fracture at the site,the body will form a blood clot around the fracture.After that a a body tissue called callus will connect the broken parts of the bone together.It is soft at first but then it hardens over time and becomes the bone. In fact the bone is harder then before

How do Broken Bones heal?

If doctors think a bone is broken they will take a x-ray.If the bone is broken then they will place a splint,cast,or brace to help it stay in place while it heals.They may give you crutches, knee scooter, or a wheelchair if you break your leg.This helps the bone not have pressure on it while it heals.

Fun Facts

• Children's bones are more spongy like so they don't break as easily as adult bones.They also heal faster
• Women have brittle bones,and in order for them to have stronger bones they need to take a lot of calcium. Calcium can come from dairy products.
• Some common fractures in a child is a forearm fracture,elbow fracture, and ankle fracture
• Fractures in children rarely require surgery
• Children have one type of fracture that doesn't occur in adults.It is called a growth plate fracture.A growth plate is in the ends of bones.
• Children don't have to have perfectly aligned bones they just has to be around the area because they will remodel when the child grows up
• Stress fractures happen over time
• Strains and sprains are differentiated by their symptoms because if you break abone you will feel and see warmth and redness,whereas if you break a bone you won’t be able to move the limb

Sources

Sources of images and info:

• URL:https://www.123rf.com/clipart-vector/broken_arm.html?sti=n3o351hskadop2pxel|&mediapopup=68832347
• Brainpop Junior
• Brainpop
• Kids Health
• Very Well Health
• Healthy Children
• Web MD
• Childrens

Source:https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/broken-bones.html