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Evaluation of Race Performance After Tendon Injuries in Race Horses with Special Respect to Lesion Related Parameters     
Yazarlar
Doç. Dr. Gülsüm Ülke ÇALIŞKAN
Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Deniz Seyrek İntaş
Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Nureddin Çelimli
Türkiye
Özet
The study aimed to assess the race performance after injury of the palmar metacarpal tendon region in Thoroughbred and Arabian racehorses. A special scoring system was established to evaluate the performance of the horses for each race after the injury, objectively in this study. Thus, individual total race earnings, the rates of ranking among the top four in at least two and three races and the number of participated races after injury were also analysed. The performance scores after injury were found to be lower in tendinitis cases compared to peritendinitis cases (P=0.0004). It was found that the suc-cess rate was lower in cases with tendon lesions than in cases without lesions in terms of race performance after injury (P=0.006). Injuries causing tendon thickening and also tendon echogenicity alterations had negative effects on race performances after injury (P=0.01 and P=0.04, respectively). Also individual total race earnings were lower in cases with tendon thickening compared to those without thickening (P=0.02). According to the results of this study, it is recommended to take prophy-lactic measures for tendinitis in cases with tendon thickening and echogenicity changes detected by ultrasound in the early stages of tendinitis to be able to display a good race performance after injury.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Arabian | performance scores | race performances | tendinitis | Thoroughbred | ultrasound
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı Bulgarian Journal of Veterinary Medicine
Dergi ISSN 1311-1477
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Web of science zoologic record, DOAJ
Makale Dili İngilizce
Basım Tarihi 12-2022
Cilt No 25
Sayı 4
Sayfalar 613 / 626
Doi Numarası 10.15547/bjvm.2020-0136
Makale Linki http://tru.uni-sz.bg/bjvm/2020-0035%20OnFirst.pdf