A short excerpt of a YouTube video by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explaining Wolff's Law: bone remodels along lines of stress. The speaker notes that excessive or abnormal stress can cause bones to become harder or softer, potentially producing deformities (e.g., bow legs or knock knees) and contributing to arthritis.
This is called Wolf's Law.
So you see people who are like really bow legged or really knock kneed in those situations, the bone actually remodels. In orthopedics, we have some big words. This one is called Wolff's Law. Bone actually remodels along lines of stress. So if you push on it too hard, it'll remodel. It'll either get harder or softer. And in some cases it gets softer. And so then you end up having the bony deformity that develops with arthritis.
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