The Acute Poorly Performing Sport Horse
The Acute Poorly Performing Sport Horse
Author: Edited By: Arno LindnerThe determination and management of performance-limitation in sport horses is very challenging, especially within a short time period before an important competition. In this book experts disclose their experience on:
- What do we know about the poor performance horse?
- The gastrointestinal tract: medical, nutritional and surgical considerations.
- Could it be the heart?
- Could it be the muscles?
- Monitoring orthopaedic health in competition horses.
- Could it be the foot?
- Could it be neurological?
- Cases where physiotherapy helped to make a difference.
- Could it be respiratory?
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: Unknown
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Extent:192pp
ISBN: 978-90-8686-072-2
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- Foreword
Articles
- What do we know about the poor performance horse? - Tatiana Art and Emmanuelle van Erck
- The gastrointestinal tract of performance horses: medical, nutritional and surgical considerations - Andy E. Durham and Nathaniel A. White
- Sudden poor performance in the equine athlete: could it be the heart? - Lesley Young and Gunther van Loon
- Prevalence and clinical management of equine exertional rhabdomyolysis syndrome in different types of sport horses - José Luis L. Rivero and Richard J. Piercy
- Monitoring orthopaedic health in competition horses - Sue Dyson and Philippe Benoit
- The horse’s foot as a source of poor performance - Tracy A. Turner
- Could it be the foot? If yes, what can be done? - Andrew P. Bathe
- Acquired neurological conditions of performance horses in the ‘perievent period’ - Lutz Goehring and Barrie Grant
- Specific cases where physiotherapy made an improvement in equine sport - Christel Auer
- Poor performance: could it be caused by respiratory malfunction? - Marianne M. Sloet van Oldruitenborgh-Oosterbaan and J.Geoffrey Lane
Abstracts
- Effect of forage: concentrate ratio on acid-base balance and racing performance - D.E. Allen, J.M. Ellis, R.G. Wilkinson, T. Carey and T. Hollands
- Training and competition follow-up in the field in young horses trained for three-day-eventing - Anne Couroucé-Malblanc, Elsa Authié, Benjamin Morillon and Sophie Biau
- Cortisol response of therapeutic riding horses to hippotherapy and horse riding sessions - C. Cravana, F. Di Giovanni, P. Medica, E. Fazio and A. Ferlazzo
- The influences of overtraining on the hypothalamo-pituitaryadrenocortical axis in Standardbred horses - E. de Graaf-Roelfsema, H.A. Keizer, E. van Breda, I.D. Wijnberg and J.H. van der Kolk
- The effect of overtraining and subsequent detraining on glucose metabolism and peripheral insulin sensitivity in Standardbred horses - E. de Graaf-Roelfsema, H.A. Keizer, E. van Breda, I.D. Wijnberg and J.H. van der Kolk
- Circulating cortisol levels of Arab sport horses before and after gymkana riding events: effects of training state, gender and age - E. Fazio, P. Molinari, P. Medica, C. Messineo and A. Ferlazzo
- Quantification of negative mental status of a horse during physical activity - F. Jansen, J. Van der Krogt, K. Van Loon, S. Quanten, D. Berckmans, M. Guarino and V. Avezzù
- Serum cardiac troponin I and echocardiographic behavior of endurance horses in response to prolonged physical exercise - L.E.S. Michima, C.C.M. Bonomo, P. Miyashiro and W.R. Fernandes
- Oxidative stress and exercise induced rhabdomyolysis in standardbred horses - E. van Erck, C. Loigerot, P. Lekeux and N. Kirschvink
- Treating the elite sports horse; can we determine withdrawal times from data available in the literature? - A.V. van Weezel Errens, A.H. Werners and J. Fink-Gremmels
- The influence of exercise and training on plasma acylcarnitine profile of Standardbred horses - Cornélie M. Westermann, Bert Dorland, Monique G.M. de Sain-van der Velden, Inge D. Wijnberg, Eric van Breda, Ellen de Graaf-Roelfsema, Hans A. Keizer and Johannes H. van der Kolk
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