Damage To "Good As New"

The saga of our single damaged bone cell continues.

Immediately post breeze the fractured cell sits tightly encased in its own bone glue proteins. Fluids from various sources will contain materials that begin the process of mineralization/crystallization that proceeds with the formation of molecular bonds as the materials and catalysts arrive on the scene.

How long to "good as new"?

Since human research hardly seems concerned with a day to day progress of report of the healing bone cell I've yet to find any precise information. We again do guess work, but there's enough info available that I believe we can just about peg this.

1. Soft tissue repair takes two weeks. We may imagine "bond formation", forking, and knitting BUT without the subsequent crystallization. You'd suppose soft tissue repair takes less time than bone mineralization as soft tissue, after it knits together has finished.
2. Simple fractures, cracked ribs and the like take 6 weeks to 3 months in most cases for complete healing. What does this tell us about repair of the simple fractured cell?

First, consider this interesting video: ( this takes a bit to load, but is worth the wait!)


For a full fracture as opposed to single cell repair there is much to be done before we ever get to bone cell mineralization.

So, let's put two and two together. It has to take 30 days to complete the clotting, callous formation and new cell process(involved in full fracture repair). Mineralization of the newly laid down bone(after callous formation has completed) then takes approximately 30 days more. A more serious fracture would extend this time frame.

30 days from beginning of mineralization to end for a single cell is exactly what I'd guess even without the above analysis. Bone has simply got to take more time than soft tissue, and 30 days is also a pretty good guess.

Thus, there you have it. 30 days for bone cell repair. The significance next post.

Training:
Wed. 9/10: That we were able to train was the good news. That we have a projected 5-7 inches of rain coming in the next 5 days is the bad. Hurricane Ike starts in the East Atlantic and ends up over us. Who'd have thunk? Needless to say the RR blood pressure continues to rise over this weather. This is just nuts.
Art was ok by last night. It was already dripping rain on my way to the farm, and so we opted for a rigorous riderless workout given the coming rain. Went about 10 min in drying mud decently fast. This is a very game horse, and there were some spurts as the conditions allowed. Decided he did to much too also engage in tack work.
Rod: the mystery of failing to extend gallops per last post is solved. Looks like the horse has either abscesses or bruises on both hinds. This is a relief because the problem is other than shoulder, and just crazy as the rain is coming in. I'm hoping its just bruising from hard gallops in the mud and a little bute will clear it up. If it's a double abscess we're probably talking two weeks in this weather, assuming I can locate the dam things.