Transforming Lives Through Health

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A General check-up also known as a routine physical periodic health evaluation annual physical, comprehensive medical exam general health check preventive health examination medical check-up or simply medical is a physical examination performed on an asymptomatic patient for medical screening purpose

 Our skeleton is made up of hard and strong bones. Bones cannot be bent. We can bend (or move) our body parts only at those places where two (or more) bones join together. Such places are called joints. For example, we can bend our arm at the elbow because the bones of the upper arm and lower arm form a joint at the elbow. If, however, our arm were one long bone from shoulder to wrist, then we could not bend our arm. This point will become more clear from the following activity.