An application of temperature mapping of horse's back for leisure horse‐rider‐matching

Animal Science Journal - Tập 90 Số 10 - Trang 1396-1406 - 2019
Małgorzata Maśko1, Anna Krajewska1, Łukasz Zdrojkowski2, Małgorzata Domino2, Zdzisław Gajewski2
1Department of Animal Breeding, Faculty of Animal Science Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS – SGGW) Warsaw Poland
2Department of Large Animal Diseases with Clinic, Veterinary Research Centre and Center for Biomedical Research, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS – SGGW), Warsaw, Poland

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AbstractLeisure 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.

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Animal Science Journal

Tập 90 Số 10

1396-1406

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