Post Breeze/Race Remodeling IV

Do the processes post event described (last bone post) produce immediate effects that would constitute change or remodeling in the cannon bone?

We want to 1. identify these effects, if any, and 2. determine how long they last, i.e. are they permanent and if non-permanent, what is the expiration date?

In looking at these questions please keep in mind that we're considering each of the various materials which make up bone primarily including

non-mineralized collagen
partially mineralized collagen
mineralized collagen

and the attendant non-bone circulatory, lymphatic and nerve systems as well as specialized bone structures such as the marrow, taking note that the remodel or change effect may differ depending on the material under consideration.

As such we may conjure a model that might provide an idea of the post race condition of the bone structure which we may compare with what was there pre-event.

Consider first the mineralized collagen..

This largely nearly non-biologic material, akin in structure to inert solids such as rock, glass, sea shells, etc. exists in the form of a lattice or matrix represented at the atomic level by the illustration above left. Notice that the structure in the graphic consists of single branch straight lines that meet at various connection points. The lines themselves will be (in bone) composites of calcium with the connecting points being merely further sedimentation of the same material--in effect a thickened receptor site on which the branch may coalesce.

I have previously speculated (in response reading various texts on physics) that inert solids such as rock or crystals of glass will at the atomic level, tighten slightly, or gird against continual force in the form of "strikes" such as those involved in the stride of our race horse.

This would work in the illustration above by the lines coming together somewhat under the pressure of the strike basically smashing themselves into the connection points so that the connection points increase slightly in volume and size as they absorb the branch that is being forced in that direction. The overall effect would be to compact the whole structure, which will then tend to rebound after the concussive event has ended.

Given these properties, may we assume post race that we have millions of mineralized bone cells in a compacted, tightened, girded condition, and that this tightening will produce push back energy from the same millions of cells that might in part create the post race bone heat!!!

Thus post race Effect #1: mineralized collagen whose cells stand in a slight state of compaction with a rebounding back to original shape in process. Next post: how long does the rebounding take, and what is the condition of this material before our next event!

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