CONNECTIONS to HEALTH

Missing Bones Did you know that, as an adult, you have 206 bones in your body... ? But when you were a child, you actually had 300 bones! Weird! So, what happened to those 94 bones between childhood and adulthood?  Well, it's perhaps not totally true that "children" have 300 bones... In fact, children have a different number of bones at different times in their lives. To generalise, you could say that about 300 bones become 206 bones -- but even that is not a simple process of consolidation.  As a child grows, bones are fusing into one another on different time scales while, at the same time, new bones are developing.  In fact, bone development is a process of constant change... It's quite true that the skeleton is a very solid structure - and for good reason - but the first thing to understand is that bone is actually a dynamic tissue.  Every day of our lives, some bone is being broken down and some is being built up.  The whole process is called re-modelling. When a human is born, the bones are all in different stages of these "mineralisation and ossification processes."  As time goes by, some bones that develop close to one another actually fuse into a single bone.  And other bones, whose cartilage templates didn't even exist at birth, slowly take form. It's all part of a process that is initiated before birth but for many people continues into their late twenties.  It just shows how amazing the human body really is! Free Chiropractic There is still time to get the bones you have left checked over chiropracticaly for free. Our free chiropractic offer is still in place until the end of July. To find out more click here. Thanks to all of you who have already taken advantage of this and helped us to celebrate our prosperity.

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