Marunova, Eva
- Royal Veterinary College
Abstract
Evaluation of diagnostic anesthesia during equine lameness examination requires comparison of com-plex movement patterns and can be influenced by expectation bias. There is limited research about how changes in movement asymmetries after successful analgesia are affected by different exercise condi-tions. Movement asymmetry of head, withers and pelvis was quantified in N = 31 horses undergoing forelimb or hindlimb diagnostic anesthesia. Evaluation on a straight line and a circle was performed with subjective diagnostic anesthesia outcome and quantitative changes recorded. Mixed linear models ( P < .05) analyzed the differences in movement asymmetry before/after diagnostic anesthesia -random fac-tor: horse, fixed factors: surface (soft, hard), direction (straight, inside, outside, inside-outside average), diagnostic anesthesia outcome (negative, partially positive, positive) and two-way interactions. Forelimb diagnostic anesthesia influenced primary movement asymmetry (all head and withers parameters) and compensatory movement asymmetry (two pelvic parameters) either individually ( P
Keywords
Gait analysis; Equine lameness; Inertial sensors; Kinematics; Orthopedics; Lunging
Published in
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
2022, volume: 118, article number: 104136
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
SLU Authors
Hernlund, Elin
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Rhodin, Marie
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Animal Biosciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Clinical Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jevs.2022.104136
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/120005