Orthopedic/Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation can be both a valuable comprehensive patient care service and economic addition to many veterinary practices.
Sport Medicine
Category: Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine
OBJECTIVE: Internet-based surveys of canine agility injury rates have been performed, but unlike with equine and human competition, there is a paucity of data on return to sport of agility dogs after orthopaedic injury. This study aimed to gather initial information on canine return to competition.
Category: Sport Medicine
Radiographic flexor cortical lysis indicates advanced degenerative change and its earlier recognition may improve case outcome. Aims of this prospective, diagnostic accuracy study were to determine effects of radiographic beam angle and observer on accuracy of lesion detection.
Category: Equine - Sport Medicine - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Journal: VCOT
OBJECTIVES:
To determine ground reaction forces, head and pelvis vertical motion (HVM and PVM, respectively), and thoraco-lumbar lateral angular motion (LAM) of the spine using kinematic gait analysis in dogs with mild asymmetric weight-bearing of the pelvic limbs while trotting.
METHODS:
Category: Rehabilitation - Spine - Sport Medicine
Journal: Vet J
To gain insight into the adaptive mechanisms to tripedal locomotion and increase understanding of the biomechanical consequences of limb amputation, this study investigated kinetic and temporal gait parameters in dogs before and after the loss of a hindlimb was simulated. Nine clinically sound Beagle dogs trotted on an instrumented treadmill and the ground reaction forces as well as the footfall patterns were compared between quadrupedal and tripedal locomotion.
Category: Oncology - Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine
Journal: J Small Anim Pract
OBJECTIVES:
To identify environmental and management factors affecting injury rate in racing greyhounds.
METHODS:
Surveys of racing injuries at two greyhound tracks in the UK were conducted using injury data collected by track veterinary surgeons. At Track A the relative frequency of common injuries was determined and compared with previously published studies conducted in the UK. At Track B the effects of month of the year, ambient temperature and track condition ("going") on injury rate were determined.
Category: Sport Medicine
Journal: Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol
Objectives: To develop a platform that used standard size force plates for large breed dogs to capture ground reaction force data from any size dog. Methods: A walkway platform was constructed to accommodate two force plates (60 cm x 40 cm) positioned in series to a variety of smaller sizes. It was constructed from a custom wood frame with thick aluminium sheet force plate covers that prevented transfer of load to the force plate, except for rectangular windows of three different dimensions.
Category: Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine
Journal: Am J Vet Res
Objective-To compare the 3-D motion of the pelvic limb among clinically normal dogs and dogs with cranial cruciate ligament (CCL)-deficient stifle joints following tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) or lateral fabellar-tibial suture (LFS) stabilization by use of an inverse dynamics method. Animals-6 clinically normal dogs and 19 dogs with CCL-deficient stifle joints that had undergone TPLO (n = 13) or LFS (6) stabilization at a mean of 4 and 8 years, respectively, prior to evaluation.
Category: Knee - Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine - Tendon and Ligament Injuries
Journal: Am J Vet Res
Objective-To use an inverse dynamics method to describe the motion of the canine pelvic limb in 3 dimensions. Animals-6 healthy adult dogs. Procedures-For each dog, 16 anatomic and tracking markers were used to define the center of rotation for the pelvic limb joints and a kinematic model was created to describe the motion of the pelvic limb.
Category: Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine
Precision and accuracy of ground reaction force normalization in a heterogeneous population of dogs.
Journal: Vet Surg
OBJECTIVE:
To determine if currently used ground reaction force (GRF) normalization methods are accurate and precise enough to be used on a single-limb basis.
STUDY DESIGN:
Prospective clinical trial.
ANIMALS:
Clinically normal (n = 69) dogs and 40 dogs with unilateral ruptured cranial cruciate ligaments (CCL).
METHODS:
Category: Rehabilitation - Sport Medicine