Bone Resorption during lay-up

[griff]

The Horse.com has a reprint of the 1999 article #338 on Bone Formation With Exercise that states that, amoung other things; "-- when a young horses in training is sidelined, the bone begins a resorption process because little strength is needed when it is standing in a stall. When that occurs the horse must be started over in the bone conditioning process."

The article also has some follow on info on Dr Nunamaker's New Bolton Shine Study.

griff

[Shammy Davis]

That's very interesting.

[xfactor fan]

And just to bring this up again, steroid use kills bone building. So stall rest and steroids can be a deadly combination.

[griff]

I did not knoiw steroids were a part of stall rest..

griff

[xfactor fan]

Don't know if steroids are used with stall rest either, just wanted to put the steroids/bone loss out there again.