eng Science and Education Publishing Biomedical Science and Engineering 2373-1265 2018-03-31 5 1 5 8 10.12691/bse-5-1-2 BSE2017512 article M. Tsili martsili@otenet.gr 1 D. Zacharopoulos 1 School of Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece In present paper we investigated if temperature plays any role to the growth of cracks in a tibia due to distance-running. We used modified theory of adaptive elasticity taking into account the temperature. We compared our results with that of the corresponding problem neglecting temperature and we concluded that temperature effects the bone disease. http://pubs.sciepub.com/bse/5/1/2/bse-5-1-2.pdf temperature growth of cracks tibia distance running modified adaptive elasticity