Growth of length in a long bone occurs at the epiphyseal plate.
Epiphyseal plates close after puberty. This because your body begins to produce testosterone, which is in turn converted into estrogen, which is responsible for the closing of the growth plate or Epiphyseal Plate. So it differs from person to person, if you have gone through puberty then your growth plates are developed.
it hurts quite bad. I fractured my growth plate in my shoulder.I took a couple x rays and it had a tiny crack in the growth plate.
Epiphyseal plate
The epiphyseal plate.
break your growth plate...in your bone
A thickening of bone occurs called appositional growth after the growth plate closes in late teens. If this type did not occur and the bone would just get thicker, we would weight about 200 pounds more than we do. The bone inside is removed by osteoclasts (bone breakers) while bone on the outside is laid down by osteoblasts (bone builders).
Epiphyseal plate
In those who are not fully adult, growth plates are located on the ends of long bones. On the arm, the growth plate is located on the end of the humerus near the elbow.
When the epiphyseal plate is replaced by bone, then growth at that bone stops.
The scientific name for a growth plate is physis. It is a layer of cartilage located at the ends of bones in children and adolescents that allows for bone growth.
Because it is located close to the edge of the continental plate, which is close to the Pacific plate.