Itoi Takamasa, Kawata Shuji, Fukuda Yoshiyuki, Maejima Saori
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Okayama University of Science, Imabari 794-8555, Ehime, Japan.
Department of Comparative Animal Science, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Kurashiki 712-8505, Okayama, Japan.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Sep 9;11(9):2650. doi: 10.3390/ani11092650.
The prognosis for intervertebral disc disease (IVDD), a common neurologic disease in dogs, varies, with some cases requiring long-term rehabilitation. Corsets are used as part of the physical rehabilitation of dogs, and one of these, the Anifull Dog's Corset Pro, is manufactured and sold by Daiya Industry Co., Ltd. This corset is used to relieve pain caused by spinal cord and vertebral diseases, and to prevent neurological conditions from worsening, by limiting spinal movement. However, the effect of the Anifull Dog's Corset Pro on gait has not yet been clarified. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the effects of this corset on the gait of dogs using kinematic and kinetic analyses. Five healthy beagle dogs wearing corsets were trotted, kinematic and kinetic parameters were measured using motion capture and force plates, and the results were compared to those obtained when the dogs were not wearing a corset. The range of motion of the angle formed by the 13th thoracic vertebra and the 7th lumbar vertebra at the apex of the 7th cervical vertebra was significantly reduced in the corset-wearing dogs. Thus, the Anifull Dog's Corset Pro may improve trunk stability without affecting gait.
椎间盘疾病（IVDD）是犬类常见的神经系统疾病，其预后各不相同，有些病例需要长期康复治疗。束腹带被用作犬类身体康复的一部分，其中一种名为Anifull Dog's Corset Pro的束腹带由大雅工业有限公司生产和销售。这种束腹带用于缓解脊髓和脊椎疾病引起的疼痛，并通过限制脊柱运动来防止神经状况恶化。然而，Anifull Dog's Corset Pro对步态的影响尚未明确。因此，我们旨在通过运动学和动力学分析评估这种束腹带对犬类步态的影响。让五只佩戴束腹带的健康比格犬小跑，使用动作捕捉和测力板测量运动学和动力学参数，并将结果与犬类未佩戴束腹带时获得的结果进行比较。在佩戴束腹带的犬类中，第7颈椎顶点处第13胸椎和第7腰椎形成的角度的运动范围显著减小。因此，Anifull Dog's Corset Pro可能在不影响步态的情况下提高躯干稳定性。
