Tendons and Ligaments

What makes our bones stay together? Well in our body there is a special rubber band that makes our bones stay together and that is called a ligament. Ligaments attach our bones together so we can bend and do all other kinds of stuff. Ligaments are really helpful too, but why is that. Well think if we had one long bone on our arm would we be able to be able to bent our arm, no that’s why we need our ligament so they can help us and our bones and joints move. But joints need our ligaments more so your joints can make us move. Also what makes are muscles connect to our bones? There is a special name for that and those are your tendons. Tendons are the end of the muscles and they connect to your bones. Did you know that the biggest tendon in our body is Achilles and your Achilles location in the body is the heel? Do you know how you injure you tendons? Well the way you injure your tendons is when you pull your tendons but what does that mean. Pulling a tendon means that when you are doing something on Physical Education and you don’t stretch you can pull your tendon .  Did you know that you tendons are very different from your muscles because your tendons can not stretch the same way as your muscles. Even there is another injury for your tendons and that is called Tendonitis. Tendonitis is cause by certain things you do and they are either typing, piano or string instruments, but what happens is when you get tendonitis your tendons get inflamed and swollen and when you move one of your tendons when have tendonitis your tendons will be painful. So always remember to protect your tendons and ligaments.