Objective evaluation of total hip replacement in 127 dogs utilizing force plate analysis

T. D. Braden; N. B. Olivier; M. A. Blaiset; S. M. Averill; C. Bolliger; C. E. DeCamp

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1636477

Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Table of Contents

Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 2004; 17(02): 78-81
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1636477

Originel Research

Schattauer GmbH

Objective evaluation of total hip replacement in 127 dogs utilizing force plate analysis

Authors

T. D. Braden

¹Surgical Specialists, Mt. St. Aignan, France
N. B. Olivier

¹Surgical Specialists, Mt. St. Aignan, France
M. A. Blaiset

¹Surgical Specialists, Mt. St. Aignan, France
S. M. Averill

²Animal Emergency and Critical Care Center, Northbrook, Illinois, USA
C. Bolliger

³Small Animal Hospital, Zofinger, Switzerland
C. E. DeCamp

⁴Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

Abstract

Summary

Clinical evaluation of total hip replacement surgery has varied from a low of 30% to a high of 91.2% of return to good or excellent function. The goal of the project reported hereafter, was to obtain an objective evaluation, via the force plate analysis of a large number of dogs receiving total hip replacement as treatment for spontaneous coxarthrosis. Every surgical candidate was trotted across a force plate before replacement surgery and at an average of six months post-operative. The results were obtained from 127 dogs. For the entire group of dogs, the Zp (vertical peak force) improved 0.394 (10⁻² N/kg) or 10.6%. The Zi (vertical impulse) improved an average of 13.6%. The improvements in Zp and Zi were statistically significant (p < 0.001).

Keywords

Total hip replacement - objective evaluation

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