Muscular and Skeletal Systems

Review your classmates’ posts and respond to two peers to further discuss the muscular and skeletal systems. At least one of your responses should be to a peer who was assigned the body system you did not discuss in your original post. Choose a dysfunction of this system and identify contributing factors for this disease. Explain the etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatment for this disease. Examine how this disease can have an effect on the other physiological systems of the body. Finally, discuss how this disease and dysfunction of the body system may have an impact on the environment or how the disease is impacted by the environment. Each peer response should be at least 100 words in length and should be supported by one scholarly source.

Here is my response- Osteoporosis is a skeletal system disease characterized by fragile bones highly susceptible to fractures. The main contributory factors include hormonal defects like increased production of parathyroid and thyroid hormones, low levels of estrogen, female gender, smoking, binge drinking, and nutritional deficiencies (Akkawi, I., & Zmerly, H. 2018). This condition is based on lack of a balance between resorption old bone and formation of new bone. In osteoporosis, during bone remodeling, there is increased osteoclastic activity in the bone hence elevated bone resorption. In contrast, the osteoblastic activities are significantly reduced, thus low levels of bone formation resulting in low bone mass and strength(Akkawi, I., & Zmerly, H. 2018).