Re: LSD and dense tissue (was Early Training)

["Julie Herrera" <julielh@lasercom.net>]

Susan,
Do bones, tendons and ligaments loose strength during a lay-up?  If so, how
long does it take to get them back to competition strength again?
Thanks,
Julie
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
To: Roberta Jo Lieberman <woik@home.com>; <ridecamp@endurance.net>; Lif
Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 11:16 AM
Subject: RC: LSD and dense tissue (was Early Training)


> >
> > All athletic horses need a certain amount of LSD (three to six months)
> > to develop a foundation of hard-tissue strength. Bone responds directly
> > to the stresses applied (Wolf's Law). The earlier you start, the greater
>
>
> Just happened to read this again while cleaning out the mailbox---as
usual,
> Bobbi's explanation is excellent, EXCEPT.  I wouldn't want anyone to get
the
> mistaken impression that 3-6 months of LSD produces the end result of
> rock-hard bones, tendons and ligaments ready for any challenge.  Yes, it's
a
> good start, but the only tissues that can really be brought to a full
level
> of response in 3-6 months are heart and muscle, NOT the dense tissues.  It
> takes a good year or more of incremental and consistent work to get even
> close to a full response from tendons and ligaments, and up to three years
> for full response from bone.  So for a horse that has not previously had
> consistent work, then 3-6 months IMO would be the bare minimum for a horse
> to then safely go through a SLOW 25 mile ride---not one where his muscles
> and heart and brain are writing checks that the legs can't cash!
>
> There's a good reason why the horses that rack up long career miles are
> generally the ones that first spent a few years poking along at the back
of
> the pack, or spent time doing ranch work, or CTR or whatever.  Yes, you
can
> condition a horse to top ten a 25 or a 50 within a few months, and every
now
> and then those horses are still around after the first year.  But you
can't
> fight physiology and no one should fool themselves that just because the
> horse was standing on all fours the next day and they couldn't feel any
> obvious heat or swelling doesn't mean that damage didn't occur.  It did.
>
> Just my two cents as usual.
>
> Susan G
>
>
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