![]() This study determined that at the end of the two-year-old season, 77% of horses that started training with open epiphyseal plates remained sound, while only 55-56 % of horses with intermediate or closed epiphyseal plates remained sound. In 1973, the Australian Veterinary Journal published an article by Mason and Bourke determining the relationship between unsoundness in two-year-old Thoroughbreds and closure of the distal radial epiphysis. For the most part, the old adage “use it or lose it” applies to bone. ![]() If they are consistently allowed to or encouraged to sprint, bone loss associated with disuse never occurs. When this happens, the accompanying pain is simply the body’s way of saying “Stop doing this – you are creating damage and it needs to get repaired before there are major problems!” Shin splints are much less likely to occur in someone who has consistently had activity involving fast running than in someone who has done none and then starts to do some. Comparatively, humans who start running after having led a relatively sedentary lifestyle often develop shin splints as microfractures begin to accumulate in the bone. The result is a horse that is ill-prepared to be an athlete and prone to getting injured. ![]() When we put horses into stalls and they don’t get to run around and play, tissues don’t gain strength and often even get weaker. ![]() Too much speed when tissues are not prepared for it is bad. ![]()
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