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I found the video Bone Biology to be extremely invitmarofe with excellent graphics. Seeing the osteoclasts absorbing the bone, then the osteoblasts reform the bone clarified the process for me. The osteoblasts then can become osteocytes when they are imbedded into the matrix. The process of growing bone to heal fractures is the same process that grows a bone to a prosthesis. When I had my first hip replacement the doctor told me the bone would grow to the prosthetic. He also told me the center of my thigh bone was essentially hollow. It had marrow that could be displaced by the bottom part of a prosthetic. My left hip has about 4 or 5 inches of the shaft inserted into the bone. The right hip (having been totally replaced three times) has a shaft that goes down to a few inches above my knee. The extra replacements were done in attempts to cure osteomyelitis from staphylococcus epidermidis. They had to take out the metal in order to kill the bacteria. S. epidermidis is the bacteria that is on our skin, it can get into our blood through skin wounds. It forms a biofilm on the surface of a prosthetic device. Since metal is immune to antibiotics, I will have osteomyelitis for the rest of my life. It is in remission now, I hope it stays that way. ARTHRITIS Osteoarthritis is the reason my hips had to be replaced. I believe I damaged the cartilage 50 years ago (as a child) when I fell out of a tree house and landed on my feet, my hips taking most of the impact. I remember my hips hurting real bad for a while. Eventually the cartilage wore away. I had bone to bone contact which was very painful. My knee is like that now because of so many years using it to carry my weight while my right hip healed. This is a common problem with hip injuries. The opposite knee gets damaged from walking on it wrong. My daughter was recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. She is only 25 years old. Her knees started to swell up and get red and hot. They did a blood test to check for lupus. They found rheumatoid factors and told her she needed to make an appointment with a specialist. Those appointments were 6 weeks out. Having an early diagnosis gives her a chance to reduce the amount of damage done to her joints. She takes over the counter anti-inflammatory medications for pain and inflammation now. When she sees a rheumatologist she can begin a more comprehensive treatment. We have been reading up on it over the internet and I knew it was a systemic disease. It does pretty much affects her whole system. She is very sore when she wakes up and doesn't want to move because it hurts and she is so tired. Recently her elbows and hips are also involved. If she doesn't have to work, she pretty much stays in bed, occasionally getting up to go to the gym or out with friends. The only thing she doesn't mind is the weight loss. The fact that it effects the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments possibly makes the disease even more painful that osteoarthritis. The painful, crippling effects and deformed joints in advanced RA can hopefully be avoided in my daughters future.
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Talyanne
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16 december 2014, 11:22:25
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