Group - Stress shielding

 

     Related Videos
Contact Stress in Devices Stress - ME C117 Lecture 10
How To Use Stress! Can Stress be Good Austin Wellness
Stress Inc 2 Truth About Stress
Stress Inc 1 Truth About Stress
Stress Inc 4 The Stress Stack


     Related Hubpages




    Report Abuse    Group Type: wiki group   Moderator:

    Status:  public   Videos: ( 0 )   Documents: ( 0 )  Comments: ( 0 )


    Group-Members ( 0 )    




         Group description

    Stress shielding refers to the reduction in bone density (osteopenia) as a result of removal of normal stress from the bone by an implant (for instance, the femoral component of a hip prosthesis). This is because by Wolff's law, which states that bone in a healthy person or animal will remodel in response to the loads it is placed under. 



         Group Videos

    No videos have been added jet. You may join this group and add yours now.


         Group Documents

    No documents have been added jet. You may join this group and add yours now.


         Ongoing discussion



         Related Documents

           Related Groups

             Related Science News

               More on Sciencestage

               Answers

               News
          • Stress rises among health workers
            Figures show a big increase in the number of NHS staff taking time off due to stress or related health problems at four of Wales' health boards.
          • Houston's daughter treated in hospital for stress
            Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina was rushed to hospital Sunday suffering from stress, one day after the death of her pop star mother, police and a family friend said.
          • Guest column: Stress has lasting effect on child's development
            The importance of children's earliest years has long been recognized, but our understanding of the underlying science has taken a significant leap in the past decades. Studies regularly document the effects that a child's earliest experiences can have on later life and adult health.
          • Ship noise boosts stress in whales, 9/11 reveals: study
            The steady drone of motors along busy commercial shipping lanes not only alters whale behaviour but can affect the giant sea mammals physically by causing chronic stress, a study published Wednesday has reported for the first time.
          • Unplanned 9/11 analysis links noise, whale stress
            An ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after Sept. 11 has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales, researchers reported Wednesday.
          • Whale stress linked to noise in 9/11 analysis
            An ocean experiment that was accidentally conducted amid the shipping silence after September 11 has shown the first link between underwater noise and stress in whales.
          • The Medical Minute: Stress tests - echo vs. nuclear
            Your health care provider has ordered a stress test for your heart. No problem, you think; you’ve seen people walk on treadmills before. In fact, you used the one in your basement a few times, a couple of years ago. Then, you look at the request and see that you are going to have a pharmacologic nuclear stress test. So, what exactly did your physician order?
          • The stress of living
            People always tell us college is the best time of our lives. But most of the time, it doesn't feel that way. College has its perks, but it is also a time of unavoidable stress. We're looking to find ourselves, to balance practicality, self-gratification and to simply survive.
          • Strategies for curbing stress
            Bet you don’t expect this: Average stress levels in North America went down in 2011. On a scale of 10, a national survey says they dropped a full point, from 6.2 to 5.2.
          • Your Health: Brain scan for PTSD
            Doctors are using new technology that could help identify and treat soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

               Related on Wikipedia




























           

          Powered free by PHPmotion