Pedigree Query

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

That's very interesting.

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

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

griff

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