Location of Trigger Points in a Group of Police Working Dogs: A Preliminary Study.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the percentage and location of trigger points in police working dogs. Twelve dogs housed at a military police kennel were selected through convenience sampling. Only active dogs with no comorbidities or radiographic changes doing 6 hours of intense physical activity per day were included. After orthopedic and neurological examination, dogs were palpated for the detection of trigger points (TPs), carried out by two independent examiners, with criteria of palpations previously standardized. TPs were recorded using an anatomy reference image according to the corresponding anatomical location. The percentage of TPs was highest in the lumbar portion of the longissimus dorsi muscle (42%), followed by the latissimus dorsi, pectineus, quadriceps femoris<

SUBMITTER: Formenton MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10526025 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature