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They have more flexible joints because the younger children are the less their bones and joints have formed. Because they are so unformed, the bones are also able to stretch. If you don't practice as you grow older the bones and joints form fully and grow stronger and you lose your flexibility. After this it is harder to become flexible. On the other hand because your bones and joints are not formed properly yet they not only are flexible but can also break easily and then heal quickly too. It's ironic. You can bend incredibly, but break easily, and then you heal easily.
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∙ 8y agoThis is a good question! Most of the joints of the new born are free and flexible. This helps for some overlapping of skull bones during the natural or normal delivery of the baby. The bones do not unite till they are fully grown. This normally happen by the age some where between 18 to 21 in normal course. The change is gradual one from childhood to adulthood. So the bones are more flexible in infant than teenager. Young children tend to fall down very often. Smaller height and flexible bones give them more protection in natural way.
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Can adults be physically more flexible than children?
Adults can be physically more flexible than children if they have always been flexible as a result of conditioning, or engaging in sports or exercises.If an adult has probloms with there back or any other part of there body. It will be very difficult. The more you work on your flexabilty as a child. The more you will be able to move better.
Is there more adult or children immigrants?
there is more adult immigrants
Why do babeis have more bones than an adult?
babies have more bones than adult because they need flexiblity so they have number of joints
Is the trachea softer and more flexible in infants and children?
Yes it is
Is children's books the same as young adult?
No, young adult is more teens like 12 and up children's is more for young kids
Do children's books affect you as an adult?
More or less, yes.
What factors affect a person's flexibility?
Younger people are more flexible than older people because younger people stretch more and exercise more as they are much more flexible. Older people don't exercise a lot and don't stretch a lot as joints get stiffer and tighter with age. Younger people does ballet dance to stretch their connective tissue and they get a lot more flexible as adults.
What is cartilage?
Cartilage is flexible connective tissue that is often found in joints near bones. Elastic cartilage is more flexible than hyaline cartilage. It is found between bones in joints to stop them from rubbing of bone tissue and to allow movement without pain. It is white and is shiny and hard. Also it is 10x slipperier than ice.
Why do children need more milk then adult?
because they need it more
What are slightly moveable joints in the skeleton?
The ischial-pubic joint moves upon parturition (delvery of a newborn infant). The ligaments between these joints become more flexible due to hormonal influences, at the time of delivery (but not at other times, in a woman's life).
Why the vertebral column of the human skeleton made up of many bones?
Many bones have many joints, hence, great flexibility.
Why are kids bones more flexible?
Children are more flexible in general because compared to developed adults they are still growing and attaining calcium as well as other vitamins that help harden bones and make them inflexible.
