Ambulation in Dogs With Absent Pain Perception After Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury

Ambulation in Dogs With Absent Pain Perception After Acute Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury

Acute thoracolumbar spinal cord injury (SCI) is common in dogs frequently secondary to intervertebral disc herniation. Following severe injury, some dogs never regain sensory function to the pelvic limbs or tail and are designated chronically “deep pain negative.” Despite this, a subset of these dog...

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Main Authors: Melissa J. Lewis, Nick D. Jeffery, Natasha J. Olby, The Canine Spinal Cord Injury Consortium (CANSORT-SCI), Sarah A. Moore, Kady M. Gjessing, Rhanna M. Davidson, Jonathan M. Levine, Helen McWhorter, Maureen E. Mullins, Ronaldo Casimiro da Costa, Yvette S. Nout-Lomas, Joe Fenn, Nicolas Granger, Ingo Spitzbarth, Veronika M. Stein, Andrea Tipold, Ji-Hey Lim, Holger Volk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Subjects:
spinal walking
deep pain negative
intervertebral disc herniation
canine
locomotion
gait generation
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fvets.2020.00560/full

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