Gait and speed as exercise components of risk factors associated with onset of fatigue injury of the third metacarpal bone in 2-year-old Thoroughbred racehorses

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 602-608

  Boston, Ray C ^a   Nunamaker, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; GAIT; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; INJURY; METACARPAL BONE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIOSTITIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BONE DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FATIGUE; GAIT; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; METACARPUS; PERIOSTITIS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034199644     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2000.61.602     Document Type: Article

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