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How your body works

What bone and cartilage actually are, how they work, and why looking after them before anything hurts is the part that pays off.

  • Bone and cartilage: why one heals and the other does not

    Two tissues millimetres apart, and why only one of them mends.

  • Bone is an organ, not a scaffold

    Living tissue that rebuilds itself, stores calcium and makes blood.

  • How a broken bone mends itself

    A cast does not join the bone. It holds the ends still.

  • Keyhole joint surgery: what the camera can and cannot do

    A camera the width of a pencil — and what it cannot do.

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