Farr Brian D, Ramos Meghan T, Otto Cynthia M
Army Medical Department Student Detachment, 187th Medical Battalion, Medical Professional Training Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX, United States.
Penn Vet Working Dog Center, Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Front Vet Sci. 2020 Aug 13;7:470. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00470. eCollection 2020.
Fit to Work is a formalized working dog foundational physical fitness assessment and development program. The Penn Vet Working Dog Center developed this program to address the needs of working dog handlers, trainers, and programs for simple, effective, and efficient methods to develop and assess working dog physical fitness. Fit to Work focuses on the foundational fitness modalities of strength, stability, mobility, and proprioception. The Penn Vet Working Dog Center piloted and refined this program over 3 months in a closed population of 31 working dogs in training. Fit to Work consists of posture development and maintenance, warm-up and cool-down routines, training exercises, and assessment methods. To simplify implementation for dogs and personnel, the foundational training program incorporates a discrete number of exercises, standardized progression steps, defined criteria for progression, and a reduced emphasis on learned behaviors. Fit to Work also enables safe and progressive assessment of foundational fitness through a tiered and inexpensive process. Future research will focus on validation of training and assessment methods, development of assessment standards, and correlation of physical fitness with operational performance.
“适合工作”是一项针对工作犬的正式基础体能评估与发展计划。宾夕法尼亚大学兽医学院工作犬中心制定该计划，旨在满足工作犬 handlers、训练师以及相关项目的需求，提供简单、有效且高效的方法来培养和评估工作犬的体能。“适合工作”专注于力量、稳定性、灵活性和本体感觉等基础体能模式。宾夕法尼亚大学兽医学院工作犬中心在31只处于训练阶段的工作犬组成的封闭群体中，对该计划进行了为期3个月的试点和完善。“适合工作”包括姿势发展与维持、热身和冷却程序、训练练习以及评估方法。为简化对犬只和人员的实施过程，基础训练计划纳入了特定数量的练习、标准化的进阶步骤、明确的进阶标准，并减少了对习得行为的强调。“适合工作”还通过分层且低成本的流程，实现对基础体能的安全且逐步推进的评估。未来的研究将聚焦于训练和评估方法的验证、评估标准的制定，以及体能与工作表现之间的相关性。
