The human skeleton is subject to on-going microfractures and microdamage. This is part of the normal wear and tear process. Whilst other mechanical devices ....
The human skeleton is subject to wear and tear. This leads to microscopic bone fractures or microfractures. These are very small and range from less than one tenth to one half of a millimetre ....
Fibrocartilage is the shocking absorbing tissue at the enthesis insertion site and within the adjacent synovio-entheseal complexes. The high forces being exerted at the ....
All parts of the enthesis including the bone and fibrocartilage are prone to injury. The resulting microdamage to the enthesis structures must be repaired to avoid complete failure of the skeleton ....
The normal enthesis has a tendency to develop new bone formation with ageing. This manifests as incidental "bony spurs" that are visible on X-rays that are usually ....
The purpose of this page is to show how the normal skeleton develops microscopic erosion immediately adjacent to enthesis. This is due to microdamage and usually repairs in healthy subjects ....
The fibrocartilagenous attachment site to bone completely lacks a blood supply in health. However, with ageing there is evidence of blood vessel infiltration into insertion sites ....
Tissue studies of the enthesis from elderly deceased subjects have shown that microscopic bone cracks, microscopic bone erosions, microscopic fibrocartilage damage, abnormal blood vessel formation and microscopic inflammation ....
One might think that people without joint symptoms would have normal MRI scans of their entheses and that only patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) and Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) and the allied with Spondyloarthropathies ....