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The Effect of Training on Stride Duration in a Cohort of Two-Year-Old and Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Racehorses (2019)
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Parkes, R. S. V., Weller, R., Pfau, T., & Witte, T. H. (2019). The Effect of Training on Stride Duration in a Cohort of Two-Year-Old and Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Racehorses. Animals, 9(7), 466. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9070466

Objective gait monitoring is increasingly accessible to trainers. A more comprehensive understanding of ‘normal’ gait adaptations is required. Forty two-year-old thoroughbred racehorses were recruited when entering training and followed for 22 months... Read More about The Effect of Training on Stride Duration in a Cohort of Two-Year-Old and Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Racehorses.

Alterations in body lean angle in lame horses before and after diagnostic analgesia in straight lines in hand and on the lunge (2018)
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Greve, L., Pfau, T., & Dyson, S. (2018). Alterations in body lean angle in lame horses before and after diagnostic analgesia in straight lines in hand and on the lunge. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2018.07.006

Altered body lean has been subjectively observed during lungeing in lame horses. The objectives were to quantify the influence of lameness on body lean in trot on the lunge and to investigate the influence of improvement in lameness on the difference... Read More about Alterations in body lean angle in lame horses before and after diagnostic analgesia in straight lines in hand and on the lunge.

Effect of a unilateral hind limb orthotic lift on upper body movement symmetry in the trotting horse (2018)
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Vertz, J., Deblanc, D., Rhodin, M., & Pfau, T. (2018). Effect of a unilateral hind limb orthotic lift on upper body movement symmetry in the trotting horse. PLoS ONE, 13(6), e0199447. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199447

In trotting horses, movement asymmetry is associated with ground reaction force asymmetry. In humans, limb length differences influence contralateral force production. Here we investigate whether horses, in immediate reaction to limb length changes,... Read More about Effect of a unilateral hind limb orthotic lift on upper body movement symmetry in the trotting horse.

Head and pelvic movement asymmetries at trot in riding horses in training and perceived as free from lameness by the owner (2017)
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Rhodin, M., Egenvall, A., Haubro Andersen, P., & Pfau, T. (2017). Head and pelvic movement asymmetries at trot in riding horses in training and perceived as free from lameness by the owner. PLoS ONE, 12(4), e0176253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176253

Recent studies evaluating horses in training and considered free from lameness by their owners have identified a large proportion of horses with motion asymmetries. However the prevalence, type and magnitude of asymmetries when trotting in a straight... Read More about Head and pelvic movement asymmetries at trot in riding horses in training and perceived as free from lameness by the owner.

Is a standalone inertial measurement unit accurate and precise enough for quantification of movement symmetry in the horse? (2015)
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Brighton, C., Olsen, E., & Pfau, T. (2015). Is a standalone inertial measurement unit accurate and precise enough for quantification of movement symmetry in the horse?. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 18(5), 527-532. https://doi.org/10.1080/10255842.2013.819857

Standalone ‘low-cost’ inertial measurement units (IMUs) could facilitate large-scale studies into establishing minimal important differences (MID) for orthopaedic deficits (lameness) in horses. We investigated accuracy and limits of agreement (LoA) a... Read More about Is a standalone inertial measurement unit accurate and precise enough for quantification of movement symmetry in the horse?.

Identifying optimal parameters for quantification of changes in pelvic movement symmetry as a response to diagnostic analgesia in the hindlimbs of horses (2014)
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Pfau, T., Spicer-Jenkins, C., Smith, R. K. W., Bolt, D. M., Fiske-Jackson, A. R., & Witte, T. H. (2014). Identifying optimal parameters for quantification of changes in pelvic movement symmetry as a response to diagnostic analgesia in the hindlimbs of horses. Equine Veterinary Journal, 46(6), 759-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/evj.12220

Walk-run classification of symmetrical gaits in the horse: a multidimensional approach
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Starke, S. D., Robilliard, J. J., Weller, R., Wilson, A. M., & Pfau, T. Walk-run classification of symmetrical gaits in the horse: a multidimensional approach. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2008.0238

Walking and running are two mechanisms for minimizing energy expenditure during terrestrial locomotion. Duty factor, dimensionless speed, existence of an aerial phase, percentage recovery (PR) or phase shift of mechanical energy and shape of the vert... Read More about Walk-run classification of symmetrical gaits in the horse: a multidimensional approach.