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The Finnish Canine Stifle Index: responsiveness to change and intertester reliability
- Source :
- The Veterinary record, The Veterinary Record
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background The responsiveness and the intertester reliability of the Finnish Canine Stifle Index (FCSI) were tested, and a cut-off between compromised and severely compromised performance level was set. Methods Three groups of dogs were used, 29 with any stifle dysfunction (STIF), 17 with other musculoskeletal disease except stifle (OTHER) and 11 controls (CTRL). All dogs were tested with the FCSI by the same physiotherapist at three occasions, at baseline, at six weeks and 10 weeks, and once also by another physiotherapist. Results Dogs in the STIF group demonstrated significantly higher (P
- Subjects :
- Male
assessment
medicine.medical_treatment
413 Veterinary science
0403 veterinary science
0302 clinical medicine
Dog Diseases
Longitudinal Studies
Prospective Studies
BATTERY
Finland
Reliability (statistics)
Rehabilitation
LABRADOR RETRIEVERS
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
Musculoskeletal disease
Stifle
DOGS
medicine.anatomical_structure
INTERRATER RELIABILITY
Lameness
LIMB FUNCTION
Female
KNEE
Joint Diseases
Paper
REHABILITATION
medicine.medical_specialty
lameness
040301 veterinary sciences
Cruciate ligament
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Animals
Physical Examination
physiotherapy
030203 arthritis & rheumatology
HIP
General Veterinary
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
SEVERITY
Case-Control Studies
Orthopedic surgery
cruciate ligament
Physical therapy
business
orthopaedics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20427670 and 00424900
- Volume :
- 186
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Veterinary Record
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....028e2f23a00c908f59519e6ebfa18aaf