Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú yđề tài: Orthopaedic health status of horses from 8 riding schools - a pilot study. | Egenvall et al. Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2010 52 50 http content 52 1 50 AVS ACTAVETERINARIA SCANDINAVICA RESEARCH Open Access Orthopaedic health status of horses from 8 riding schools - a pilot study 1 1 2 3 Agneta Egenvall Cecilia Lonnell Christopher Johnston Lars Roepstorff Abstract Background Orthopaedic injury is the most common reason for lameness and wastage in sport and leisure horses. Studies on racehorses have shown differences in injury risk between trainers and training strategies. The aim was to study between riding school variation in orthopaedic health status by clinical examination and horses age and control for change of examiner in schools with previous high n 4 and low n 4 insurance utilisation. Methods Horses n 99 at 8 riding schools were examined for conformation movement in all gaits standing flexion tests and palpation by two veterinary surgeons in some schools only one . Indexes of findings were created for total health movements limbs conformation and back palpation. Results Logistic regression analyses showed that findings increased with age walk trot canter conformation left hind limb palpation fore limbs hooves and flexion tests or decreased with age conformation right fore limb . Significant differences in findings were found between riding schools and examiner for seven and eight criteria each partly overlapping . Increasing indexes were significantly associated with one examiner total health movements back palpation increasing age total health movements or more time at the school limbs . The back palpation index was highest at 5 8 years since acquisition. Conclusion The age distribution differed markedly between riding schools and age affected several types of findings. This combined with the two opposite groups of insurance use shows that schools with low insurance utilisation had previously been able to avoid using the insurance maybe even on similar types of cases if these were more promptly differently .
