Animal Behavior & CognitionJournal of The Royal Society InterfacePeer-reviewed
A mathematical model of metacarpal subchondral bone adaptation, microdamage, and repair in racehorses
Michael Pan, Fatemeh Malekipour, Peter Pivonka…·Peta Lee Hitchens
This paper develops a mathematical model to simulate bone adaptation, microdamage accumulation, and repair in racehorses, finding that high-speed training causes significant damage and repair rates cannot offset it.