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Acceptance & Resistance of Lameness Measurement – Seasoned Lameness Experts Sound Off
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Nancy S. Loving, DVM, Loving Equine Clinic |
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NS Loving,
Objective vs. Subjective Opinion
Wellness exams and lameness evaluations often pose challenges for equine practitioners to pin down the root of a horse’s problem. Get it right and the client is forever indebted and is quick to voice confidence in your skills. Get it wrong, and they may abandon your practice and look elsewhere for veterinary expertise. Yet, in today’s diagnostic armamentarium, there is a powerful tool that has the potential to increase not just client confidence in your expertise but also your own confidence in developing a diagnosis. Inertial sensor systems provide an objective analysis of a horse’s gait. Despite access...
Visual Assessment of Lameness: Limitations and Pitfalls
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Nancy S. Loving, DVM, Loving Equine Clinic |
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NS Loving,
Objective vs. Subjective Opinion
There has been a long-standing discussion amongst many equine veterinarians about the confidence they feel using the naked eye to evaluate and assess lame horses. Many feel certain that they have a keen eye and can discern even subtle gait asymmetries, and think that there is little need for objective assessment using inertial sensor modalities. A recent webinar presented by Maarten Oosterlinck, DVM, PhD, DECVSMR, DECVS and Sandra Starke, BSc, MSc, PhD cited interesting data on how such self-assessed confidence in visual assessment may not be all it seems. At the start of the discussion, Oosterlinck notes that it...
An Open Letter to Veterinary Colleagues
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Kevin G. Keegan, DVM, MS, DACVS |
Andy Wolter, Equinosis CEO |
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A Wolter,
KG Keegan
Introduction From Andy Wolter, CEO, Equinosis: Dear reader, Nearly every day there is a reason I am optimistic about the future of science & objectivity in equine veterinary medicine. But, now and again, I am reminded of how far we still have to go. Reading a 2020 article titled “Is the use of objective gait analysis inevitable?” seems like debating whether the Earth really is flat – if you just keep your feet on ground. The evidence on objective measurement is in, and it is irrefutable. A lack of education is certainly at play for many detractors of science. But...
When Subjective Opinion Disagrees with Inertial Sensor Measurements
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Kevin G. Keegan, DVM, MS, DACVS |
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Data Collection,
Data Interpretation,
Editorial,
KG Keegan,
Objective vs. Subjective Opinion,
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Whenever I use the Equinosis Q, which is on every lameness case, treatment checkup, or pre-purchase, I also always do a subjective lameness evaluation, determining and often times declaring my subjective impression regarding where (i.e. which limb or limbs) I think the lameness is. Sometimes there is disagreement between my subjective opinion and the results of the inertial sensors. What is my take on this? The short and easy answer is, "I was probably wrong". This happens occasionally and it no longer bothers me or my clients, or the students or house officers I am training. I am...
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Acceptance & Resistance of Lameness Measurement – Seasoned Lameness Experts Sound Off
Visual Assessment of Lameness: Limitations and Pitfalls
An Open Letter to Veterinary Colleagues
When Subjective Opinion Disagrees with Inertial Sensor Measurements
An Inside Look At Objective Evaluation: All-Access Investigation of the Equinosis Q
Man with Machine Versus Man Without Machine: Debunking the Myths
Redefine Lameness? Accommodating the Layman’s Perspective on Lameness
What Are You Trying to Measure?