Horses can gallop within hours of birth, and may begin training for athletic competition while
still growing. This review cites studies on the effects of exercise on bone, tendon and …

Despite the high incidence of superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) injury in racehorses,
the pathobiology of the condition is not clearly defined. The SDFT improves locomotor …

Because the majority of foals afflicted with “joint ill” also have infectious (poly)osteomyelitis,
previous definitions no longer suffice. In this article the different syndromes are described …

In human athletes, conditioning, training and competition are commenced before skeletal
maturity. Yet in equine athletics, racing of young (age 2 years) horses remains contentious. …

Whole-body vibration (WBV) leads to a rapid increase in intra-muscular temperature and
enhances muscle power. The power-enhancing effects by WBV can, at least in part, be …

Plasma cortisol concentrations were determined before, during and after analgesia,
anaesthesia and anaesthesia plus ovariohysterectomy in six New Zealand border collie cross …

A cross-sectional study using a modified Nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire asked 867
New Zealand veterinarians about the presence or absence of musculoskeletal discomfort (…

This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that collagen fibrils, the submicroscopic
units of strength in tendon, would hypertrophy in response to a specific defined training …

Objective To measure collagen fibril crimp angles and lengths as well as collagen fibril mass‐average
diameters in central and peripheral regions of the superficial digital flexor tendon …

AIM: To characterise and explain the increase in density evident by computerised tomography
(CT) and radiography in companion studies as a response to training, in bone in the …