KIN 4512 Chapter : Chapter 5 Outline
15 Mar 2019
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If a child plays the same thing over and over, more likely to develop overuse injury. Children should play multiple sports/change positions that involve different motions. What does this reflect about the connection between skeletal growth and maturation: skeletal growth tends to stop with maturation. What cells are responsible for this: osteoclasts (take up) and osteoblasts (lay down, in adulthood, bone growth slows, fails to keep pace with reabsorption, decreases ~1% per year, bone becomes more brittle. Is there anything that can be done to prevent/reduce these declines: stay active if you don"t use it, you lose it. [~100 trillion synaptic connections: experience might play role in synaptic proliferation (strengthening some connections, weakening others), neural network becomes more efficient with experience, postnatal neurological growth, brain growth increases rapidly after birth, growth involves these factors: Increases in size of neurons: prolific branching to form synapses. Increases in glial cells for support and nourishment of neurons.
