Exercise distance and speed affect the risk of fracture in racehorses

Bone

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1322-1330

  Verheyen, Kristien ^a   Price, Joanna ^b   Lanyon, Lance ^b   Wood, James ^a  

^a ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Epidemiology; Exercise; Fracture; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; CELL STIMULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HORSE; MALE; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; TRAINING; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ENGLAND; EXERTION; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; RUNNING;

EID: 35448985888     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.05.025     Document Type: Article

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