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Bone remodeling - Coggle Diagram
Bone remodeling
Stimuli
Muscle
Compression toward pull/on closer side
Tension on opposite side
Weight bearing
Compression on side closer to ground
Tension on opposite side
Environment
Nutrition
Age
Repetition/rate of load
Needs to meet minimum effective strain threshold
Osteoclast
Breaks down bone
Retaining calcium
Space for new bone
Osteoblast
Cortical bone
More dense
On compression side
Trabecular bone
More spongey
On tensile side
Osteocytes
Mechanoreceptors to tell you to remodel