How do broken bones heal?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Why do we have bones? How do they grow–and how do they know when to stop growing? How many do we have in our bodies? And when we break our bones, how do they heal? What do casts do? And how do you know if you’ve broken a bone? Broken bones are a common occurrence in kids. Up to 40% of girls and up to 50% of boys will break a bone in their lifetime. In this episode, we learn about the role of bones in our body and how to deal with a fractured bone with Melissa Raddatz, a family nurse practitioner at Duke Health System in North Carolina. The first part of this episode is all about bones in general, and we shift to broken bones for the second half.
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| 0:00.0 | The This is, but why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Jane Lindholm. |
| 0:25.3 | On this show, we take questions from curious kids all over the world |
| 0:28.7 | and we find interesting people to help us answer them. |
| 0:32.0 | You've sent us so many amazing questions over the years and we can see some |
| 0:36.1 | themes in the kinds of questions you often want answers to. A lot of you are really interested in animals, of course, but also many of you are interested |
| 0:48.0 | in how things work, and in particular how you work. |
| 0:52.8 | You want to understand your own body. |
| 0:55.8 | So today we're going to tackle one crucial part of our insides, |
| 0:59.8 | a part that helps us run and jump and stand up tall instead of being a wobbly blob on the ground. |
| 1:06.1 | We're going to talk about our bones. |
| 1:09.3 | Lots of you have sent us questions about bones, how they work, and why they sometimes break. |
| 1:15.4 | So we're going to start with how they work, and then we're going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:19.0 | broken bones, why they break and how they get fixed. If that's something that makes you a little |
| 1:24.4 | uncomfortable to think about, it's okay to stop listening when we get to that part. |
| 1:28.5 | I'll warn you when it's coming up. For those of you ready to learn more, let's dive right in. We're going to go under the skin, |
| 1:35.6 | through our muscles, and right to the bone. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello, my name is Aubrey. I am seven years old. I live in North Carolina, my question is why do we have to have |
| 1:45.4 | so many bones in our body? My name is Emma my president why the body made up bones? |
| 1:54.0 | I'm from Jersey City. |
| 1:57.0 | Why do we have bones? |
| 1:59.0 | Hi, my name is Cameron. |
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