Dyson Sue, Pollard Danica
Independent consultant, The Cottage, Church Road, Market Weston, Diss IP22 2NX, UK.
Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Department, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7UU, UK.
Animals (Basel). 2020 Jun 17;10(6):1044. doi: 10.3390/ani10061044.
A Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) comprising 24 behaviours has been developed to facilitate the identification of musculoskeletal pain. The aim was to further test the RHpE by its application to a convenience sample ( = 60) of sports horses and riding school horses in regular work and assumed by their owners to be working comfortably. All horses performed a purpose-designed dressage-type test of 8.5 min duration in walk, trot and canter, with their normal rider. The RHpE was applied retrospectively to video recordings acquired in a standardised fashion. Seventy-three percent of horses were lame (≤ grade 2/8) on one or more limbs; 47% had gait abnormalities in canter. Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram scores ranged from 3 to 16/24 (median 9); rider skill score ranged from 2.5 to 8/10 (median 4.75). The effect of horse age, breed, sex, work-discipline, epaxial muscle hypertonicity or pain, an ill-fitting saddle, rider skill score, the presence of lameness or gait abnormalities in canter on the RHpE score was assessed using Poisson regression. Two variables were retained in the final multivariable analysis, rider skill score as a continuous variable ( < 0.001), and lameness ( = 0.008). A RHpE score ≥8 was a good indicator of the presence of musculoskeletal pain.
一种包含24种行为的骑乘马疼痛行为图谱（RHpE）已被开发出来，以促进肌肉骨骼疼痛的识别。目的是通过将RHpE应用于一个便利样本（n = 60）的运动马和骑术学校的马，这些马处于常规工作中，其主人认为它们工作舒适，来进一步测试RHpE。所有马匹都与它们的常任骑手进行了一项专门设计的时长8.5分钟的盛装舞步类型测试，包括慢步、快步和跑步。RHpE被追溯应用于以标准化方式获取的视频记录。73%的马匹有一条或多条肢体跛行（≤2/8级）；47%的马匹在跑步时有步态异常。骑乘马疼痛行为图谱得分范围为3至16/24（中位数为9）；骑手技能得分范围为2.5至8/10（中位数为4.75）。使用泊松回归评估马匹年龄、品种、性别、工作纪律、轴后肌肉张力亢进或疼痛、马鞍不合适、骑手技能得分、跛行的存在或跑步时的步态异常对RHpE得分的影响。最终的多变量分析保留了两个变量，骑手技能得分作为连续变量（P < 0.001），以及跛行（P = 0.008）。RHpE得分≥8是肌肉骨骼疼痛存在的良好指标。
