Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bone Warm Up: One More Thing

To make sure I fire all my bullets on this topic, this post will include some miscellaneous lines from here and there, which, if you put it all together tend to support the conclusions I made last post:

"The level of hydrostatic strain in bone must be increased to cause adaption".

"...understanding the mechano-sensory bone system".

"Bone cells and/or cell network tend to adapt to external mechanical loads--they have a reaction to 'load signals'."

"Bone adaption depends on strain size, lasting time, frequency, history, type (pressure, tension) and strain distribution."

"There is a vast body of evidence that the flow of fluids within canaleculae and lacunae of bone is mostly responsible for the transduction of the mechano-chemical signal in bone cells."

James Rooney DVM: "While much has been written about the treatment of fractures, very little attention seems to have been directed at the actual mechanism of fracture--how and why they occur".

Rooney again: "Here we shall look at how and why on the gross macro level. The microscopic details of fracture are complex and mathematically difficult and will not be attempted."

Rooney: "...search the Internet for fracture mechanics will reveal a wealth of information, much of it highly technical, not to say mind-boggling, in nature". May I add, Doc, that most of it seems to be 'for sale'.

Physicist Paul Hansma: "bone...a sophisticated material with a hierarchically complex structure making it extremely resistant to fracture, given its light weight...a great deal of work remains to be done to completely understand how bone works to resist fracture."

"Study of bone fracture mechanisms aims to discover...what arrests the development of fracture." (appropriate warm up perhaps?)

"Load signals", mechano-chemical signals", "mechano-sensory bone system" all phrases indicating bone's response to pre-event stress or lack of stress. The missing element here is whether the warm up period is sufficient to increase fracture resistance. I believe that it is with appropriate warm up.

Training:
8/14/07 Groovin' Wind, rests. Receives this date full spectrum of newly bought Platinum Performance products. Will these affect the breezing tonight?

Art the Two year Old:
8/12/07: Sun. Day 2 Burch: 1 mile W/U + 1 mile at :16/f. 10 min walk-trot under tack.
8/13/07: Mon. Day 3 Burch: 4 x 1 f riderless driven full speed for each f.
8/14/07: Tues: Day 1 Burch: An off day. Did 5 min. walk-trot under tack. he's getting the hang of the trotting.

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