What Are the Effects of Exercise on the Skeletal System?
It’s often easy to overlook the effect that exercise has on the skeletal system because the bones and other associated skeletal organs are very much out of sight and out of mind. The skeletal system consists of the bones, ligaments that connect bones to other bones and cartilage that protects the bones from wear and tear. Exercise has a number of effects on the skeletal system both in the short and the long term.
