Kinematic study of back movement in clinically sound malinois dogs with consideration of the effect of radiographic changes in the lumbosacral junction

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 472-481

  Gradner, Gabriele ^a,b   Bockstahler, Barbara ^b   Peham, Christian ^b   Henninger, Wolfgang ^b   Podbregar, Iztok ^b  

^a Clinic for Surgery and Ophthalmology   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GAIT; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 34547354927     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2007.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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