Celebrate Your Skeleton!
Article provided by ICPA, Inc. | By Mackenzie McNamara, DC
October is in full swing, and so is fall! This season, we often think of pumpkins, costumes, and skeletons. But did you know your skeleton — your bones — is one of the coolest parts of your AMAZING body?
You have 206 bones, but babies actually start with even more! As you grow, some of those bones fuse together to make you strong and sturdy. And here’s a fun fact: your bones are incredibly strong — your thigh bone (the femur) can support more weight than if it were made of concrete!
What Do Bones Do?
Your bones aren’t just Halloween decorations — they work every single day. Bones help you move. Without bones, your muscles wouldn’t have anything to attach to! Bones give your arms and legs their shape, so muscles can pull on them to help you run, dance, climb, and play.
Bones protect your organs. Think of them like armor: your ribs form a cage that protects your heart and lungs. Your skull shields your brain, which is the control center for your entire body. And did you know your brain has a kind of “tail”? It’s called the spinal cord — a bundle of nerves that shoots down from the bottom of the brain, reaching all the way to your tailbone! The spinal cord carries messages between your brain and body, helping you heal, grow, digest food, breathe, and move.
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