An application of temperature mapping of horse's back for leisure horse-rider-matching.
back overload
horse-rider-matching
leisure horses
thermography
Journal
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho
ISSN: 1740-0929
Titre abrégé: Anim Sci J
Pays: Australia
ID NLM: 100956805
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2019
Oct 2019
Historique:
received:
16
07
2018
revised:
08
07
2019
accepted:
11
07
2019
pubmed:
29
8
2019
medline:
11
2
2020
entrez:
29
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Leisure riding is a popular way of using horses however, unlike sport or racing horses, those are mostly not associated with one rider with high skills. Constant overload of equine musculoskeletal system causes pathologies, which are affecting horse mobility and decreases the horse-rider communication. The aim was to propose the new scoring system of thermograph analysis as an aspect of differences in heat distributions on horseback before and after leisure ridings. The study was conducted on sixteen Polish warmblood horses, scanned with a non-contact thermographic camera. Heat pattern of the thoracolumbar area was evaluated on thermograms taken before and after exercise. The criteria with point values for horse-rider-matching were created: heat points on the dorsal midline of saddle-back contact area and degree of muscle unit overload. The results of thermograph analysis were compared with the results of a questionnaire on horse-rider communication during riding in order to estimate the relevance of matching. The maximum score was obtained in 38.3% and 39.8% of combinations based on the thermograph analysis and questionnaire, respectively. Results of both scoring systems were strongly positive correlated (r = .937), demonstrating high sensitivity (61.72%) and specificity (90.23%) of the matching. The horse-rider matching may improve horse comfort during leisure type of work.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1396-1406Informations de copyright
© 2019 Japanese Society of Animal Science.
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