A sprain is an injury to a ligament.

A dislocation is defined as the displacement of one or more bones at a joint

Which part of the bone fracture repair process does the following refer to?

Osteoblasts continue to lay down bone to help strengthen the structure. Osteoclasts begin to remove excess bone and reshape the structure until it resembles its former shape. Remodelling may take several years.

Which part of the bone fracture repair process does the following refer to?

Granulation tissue is formed by fibroblasts depositing collagen, chondroblasts depositing cartilage and osteobalsts depositing osteiod. This "soft callus" takes 1 week to form.

Which part of the bone fracture repair process does the following refer to?

This process takes place over the next month where the soft callus is "mineralised" by the addition of calcium and mineral salts. When this process is finished the tissue is called "hard callus".

Which part of the bone fracture repair process does the following refer to?

This stage begins immediately following the fracture. The blood vessels supplying the bone and periosteum are ruptured during the fracture, causing a hematoma to form around the fracture site. The hematoma clots, and forms the temporary frame for subsequent healing. The injury to bone results in the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines . These cytokines attract macrophages, monocytes, and lymphocytes. These cells act together to remove damaged, necrotic tissue and secrete cytokines like vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to stimulate healing at the site.

Rhabdomyolysis is a complex medical condition involving the rapid dissolution of damaged or injured skeletal muscle.

The disruption of skeletal muscle integrity leads to the direct release of intracellular muscle components, including myoglobin, creatine kinase (CK), aldolase, and lactate dehydrogenase, as well as electrolytes, into the bloodstream and extracellular space.

This terms refers to the physical responses to severe crushing injury of muscle tissue involving especially shock and partial or complete renal failure.

an infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone often of bacterial origin that may result in the death of bone tissue

In this disorder there is a loss of blood supply to the bone and without blood, the bone tissue dies.

Treatment of osteoarthritis is based on

Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is based on

The basic mechanism of action of Disease-Modifying Anti-rheumatic Drugs (DMARs) is to

___________ is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the spine and sacroiliac joints and often other joints (as of the shoulder) and that is marked by pain and stiffness.

Ankylosing spondylitis can lead to

This disease is marked by a painful inflammation of the joints, deposits of urates in and around the joints, and usually an excessive amount of uric acid in the blood.

A joint with gout has

This is a disease characterized by progressive wasting of muscles.