{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["36(5)"],"submitter":["Rosen S"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Despite its importance, there is no agreed definition of recovery of ambulation in dogs with spinal cord injury.<h4>Objectives</h4>To validate a new walking test in dogs recovering from thoracolumbar spinal cord injury.<h4>Animals</h4>Two hundred twenty-four dogs weighing <20 kg: 120 normally ambulatory dogs, plus 104 dogs undergoing decompressive surgery for acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc herniation.<h4>Methods</h4>Prospective cohort studies. The distance each freely-ambulatory dog walked during 50 step cycles was regressed on ulna length. For each postsurgical dog, we recorded when the calculated 50-step distance was completed without falling, or their inability to complete this distance by 4 months or more after surgery. Bayesian analysis compared outcomes fo"],"journal":["Journal of veterinary internal medicine"],"pagination":["1733-1741"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9511074"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["A 50-step walking test for analysis of recovery after decompressive surgery for thoracolumbar disc herniation in dogs."],"pmcid":["PMC9511074"],"pubmed_authors":["Schocke C","Jeffery N","Grzegorzewski JL","Heath S","Rosen S"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A 50-step walking test for analysis of recovery after decompressive surgery for thoracolumbar disc herniation in dogs.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Despite its importance, there is no agreed definition of recovery of ambulation in dogs with spinal cord injury.<h4>Objectives</h4>To validate a new walking test in dogs recovering from thoracolumbar spinal cord injury.<h4>Animals</h4>Two hundred twenty-four dogs weighing <20 kg: 120 normally ambulatory dogs, plus 104 dogs undergoing decompressive surgery for acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc herniation.<h4>Methods</h4>Prospective cohort studies. The distance each freely-ambulatory dog walked during 50 step cycles was regressed on ulna length. For each postsurgical dog, we recorded when the calculated 50-step distance was completed without falling, or their inability to complete this distance by 4 months or more after surgery. Bayesian analysis compared outcomes fo","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Sep","modification":"2026-07-14T15:51:20.558Z","creation":"2025-04-04T12:04:52.228Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9511074","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36161381"],"doi":["10.1111/jvim.16516"]}}