Evaluation of extracorporeal shockwave for treatment of horses with thoracolumbar pain

The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) on spinal mechanical nociceptive threshold (MNT) and multifidus muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) in horses with thoracolumbar pain. We hypothesized that ESWT would increase MNT and multifidus CSA. Twelve...

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Main Author: Burns, Lauren Trager
Other Authors: Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94025