State the role of ligament and tendons in our skeletal system.
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People easily confuse ligaments and tendons as the same thing, they both have vital jobs to do and have some cross over. Sadly they both suffer from poor blood supply.
Do they do the same function?Although many people confuse them, ligaments and tendons perform different roles in the human body.
What do they have in common.What ligaments and tendons have in common is that they are both types of soft tissue found in joints. However, whereas ligaments connect bone to bone, tendons attach muscle to bone. Because of the way in which they connect, ligaments and tendons thus perform different roles in the body.
Explaining what they do.
Tendons: Tough, flexible, fibrous bands of tissue that attach muscles
to bones. Without these connections you would not be able to move. The
biggest (and most famous!) is the Achilles tendon, named after the Greek
hero.
Ligaments: Composed of long, stringy collagen fibers, they create short
bands of tough fibrous tissue that connect bone to bone. Whereas
tendons help initiate movement, ligaments work to restrict movement by
limiting how far you can move, and in which direction, they thus help to
stabilize joints.
Because of their composition, ligaments are slightly elastic this means
that regular stretching will allow you to gradually lengthen them,
increasing flexibility.
What both of these also share in common is that they are prone to injury, and because they have a limited blood supply, can take a long time to heal.
example of a ligament is the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)...
1)Ligament is a fibrous connective tissues which attaches bone to bone...
2)it helps them to hold structure together and keep them stable......
3)~~~~They are elastic
*4)****Connect ends of the bones only at joints
5)Usually many ligaments per joints
6)Proteoglycan content is more than tendons
7)Ligaments are yellow in colour
8)The fibroblasts of ligaments are scattered
9)Blood supply comparatively poor
10)they are stronger than tendons.
#######Both are dense-granular connective tissues.
#####Both composed of living cells.
ñ##### Both contain plenty of collagens.
TENDONS..
example of a tendon is the Achilles tendon...
1)***Tendons are also fibrous connective tissue which connects/attaches muscle to bone
2)~~~~Tendons are cord-like, strong, inelastic structures
3)Usually only one tendon per muscle
4)Collagen content is more than ligaments
5)Proteoglycan content is less than ligaments
6)Tendons are white in colour
7)The fibroblasts of tendons lie in continuous raw
8)Have heavy blood supply
9)Connect ends of the muscles to any place of the bone
10)they are comparatively weaker than tendon
***** The strength of tendons in resisting pulls is said to be ‘equal to at least half that of the bones******
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