An application of temperature mapping of horse's back for leisure horse‐rider‐matching
| Autor: | Anna Krajewska, Lukasz Zdrojkowski, Zdzislaw Gajewski, Malgorzata Masko, Malgorzata Domino |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0303 health sciences
Matching (statistics) medicine.medical_specialty Scoring system 0402 animal and dairy science Horse 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Dorsal midline 040201 dairy & animal science 03 medical and health sciences Leisure Activities Warmblood Physical medicine and rehabilitation Thermography Horse rider Back Injuries medicine Animals Horses General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Psychology Temperature mapping 030304 developmental biology |
| Zdroj: | Animal Science Journal. 90:1396-1406 |
| ISSN: | 1740-0929 1344-3941 |
| Popis: | Leisure riding is a popular way of using horses however, unlike sport or racing horses, those are mostly not associated with one rider with high skills. Constant overload of equine musculoskeletal system causes pathologies, which are affecting horse mobility and decreases the horse-rider communication. The aim was to propose the new scoring system of thermograph analysis as an aspect of differences in heat distributions on horseback before and after leisure ridings. The study was conducted on sixteen Polish warmblood horses, scanned with a non-contact thermographic camera. Heat pattern of the thoracolumbar area was evaluated on thermograms taken before and after exercise. The criteria with point values for horse-rider-matching were created: heat points on the dorsal midline of saddle-back contact area and degree of muscle unit overload. The results of thermograph analysis were compared with the results of a questionnaire on horse-rider communication during riding in order to estimate the relevance of matching. The maximum score was obtained in 38.3% and 39.8% of combinations based on the thermograph analysis and questionnaire, respectively. Results of both scoring systems were strongly positive correlated (r = .937), demonstrating high sensitivity (61.72%) and specificity (90.23%) of the matching. The horse-rider matching may improve horse comfort during leisure type of work. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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