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Injury to the epiphyseal disc?
The epiphyseal disc refers to the regions of growth located at the ends of long bones. If these areas are injured as the bone is growing, a child may be left with shortened limbs, joint pain, or misshapen limbs.
What could happen if the epiphyseal disc was injured?
It may seriously retard bone growth.
What happens when children have thick epiphyseal plates?
The epiphyseal plates are also known as the growth plates. When these are thick, especially due to injury, they can eventually cause a deformity in the child's growth and development.
Why epiphyseal closes early?
estrogen directly causes the epiphyseal plates to close, testosterone is converted to estradiol (estrogen) by aromatase, therefore testosterone causes the epiphyseal plates to close indirectly
Does the overproduction of the growth hormone causes premature ossification of the epiphyseal disc?
No the overproduction of growth hormones can cause pituitary gigantism. The over production of Sex hormones( estrogen /testosterone) can cause premature ossification;estrogen more so than testosterone.
Where is the disc that growth of a long bone takes place?
epiphyseal plate, it is made up of cartilage that expands and is turned into bone with elongates the bone.
A herniated disc is an injury of which part of the body?
A herniated disc is an injury that can occur to your spinal cord and/or the roots of your nerves. It can be extremely painful for one to experience.
What structure allows bones to grow in thickness?
Bones grow in length by endochondral ossification. It begins with cartilage that acts like a model of the bone that will grow. The bone grows in length and diameter(appositional). the structure that allows this is the epiphyseal cartilage that seperates the epiphysis from the diaphysis. When the bone is fully grown this cartilage will become bone and simply the epiphyseal line.
What is posterior herniation?
Posterior herniation is when a disc in the spine becomes damaged and bulges outward from the spinal column toward the back. Common causes are work related injury and age.
what are the common causes of nerve pain and nerve damage?
Many causes of nerve pain or damage or due to some type of injury to the spinal column, like a slipped disc. Sometimes a pinched nerve can cause excruciating pain too.
What is a herniated disc and what causes this problem?
A herniated disc means that a part of the jelly center of the disc "gets out" of the disc into the spinal canal, and causes pressure on the nerves. What causes it? There a few opinions about that, the one that seems most logical to me (except the known and obvious reason of just "the aging of the discs") is something called "muscle imbalances", which cause extra pressure on the disc causing it to rupture. The link I added explains it and what to do about it better than me so check it out.
What structure would be present instead of a epiphyseal line?
epiphyseal plate
