ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine2022
A 50-step walking test for analysis of recovery after decompressive surgery for thoracolumbar disc herniation in dogs.
Article in Journal of veterinary internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Outcome of the Use of Clinical Reasoning Alone in Dogs with Acute Thoracolumbar Myelopathy and/or Pain.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- A 50-step walking test for analysis of recovery after decompressive surgery for thoracolumbar disc herniation in dogs.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2022Article
- Is decompression in acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc herniation overvalued?Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- Recovery of ambulation in small, nonbrachycephalic dogs after conservative management of acute thoracolumbar disk extrusion.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundDespite its importance, there is no agreed definition of recovery of ambulation in dogs with spinal cord injury.
objectivesTo validate a new walking test in dogs recovering from thoracolumbar spinal cord injury. ANIMALS: Two hundred twenty-four dogs weighing <20 kg: 120 normally ambulatory dogs, plus 104 dogs undergoing decompressive surgery for acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc herniation.
methodsProspective cohort studies. The distance each freely-ambulatory dog walked during 50 step cycles was regressed on ulna length. For each postsurgical dog, we recorded when the calculated 50-step distance was completed without falling, or their inability to complete this distance by 4 months or more after surgery. Bayesian analysis compared outcomes for presurgical neurologic categories; association of recovery with several preoperative variables was explored using logistic and time-to-event regression.
resultsFor control dogs, 50-step distance (m) = 1.384 × ulnar length (cm) + 2.773. In postsurgical dogs, the 50-step test provided decisive evidence that deep pain-negative dogs were less likely to recover ambulation than dogs with intact pain perception (12/29 recovered vs 71/75; Bayes factor [BF] = 5.9 × 10 CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: This straightforward 50-step walking test provides robust data on ambulatory recovery well-suited to large scale pragmatic trials on treatment of thoracolumbar spinal cord injury in dogs.
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