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What is a stress fracture?
What happens when you crack your knuckles?
How does an X-ray see your bones?
Why do babies have more bones than adults?
What is your funny bone?
What is a torn ACL?
- When the bones breaks and punctures the skin
- When a bone has a small crack in it
- When a bone pulls apart from another bone
- When a bone has high pressure applied to it and it becomes bruised
What happens when you crack your knuckles?
- It is a ligament being moved and then snapping back to place
- It is when you create small tiny cracks by pulling them apart
- It is when tiny air bubbles in the fluid between your bones pop
- It is a tendon being snapped back into place
How does an X-ray see your bones?
- The radiation makes your bones glow for a millisecond and the picture captures it
- The radiation is strong enough to go through skin but can not go through bone
- The radiation is strong enough to go through your bones but not your skin
- The radiation hits your bones and causes them to emit photons of light
Why do babies have more bones than adults?
- Some of them they dissolve as they get older
- Some of them fuse together as the baby gets older
- Some of the bones stay on the body but they turn into cartilage
- Some of the bones split into more bones as the child ages
What is your funny bone?
- It's a nerve that it able to be touched, unlike most nerves
- It's another name for your humerus, hence the name
- It's a main artery that provides your fingers with the oxygen it needs
- It's another name for your elbow
What is a torn ACL?
- When the tendon that connects your humerus to your ulna gets ripped
- When the ligament that connects your humerus to your ulna gets ripped
- When the tendon that connects your femur to your tibia gets ripped
- When the ligament that connects your femur to your tibia gets ripped