ABSTRACT
REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY: 'Soring' is the term used to describe the application of an irritant to the distal forelimbs of gaited horses with the sole intent of inflicting pain and inducing altered gait, illegally practiced in Tennessee Walking Horses. Objective methods for the detection of limb pain due to this practice are, however, lacking. OBJECTIVES: To assess whether Tennessee Walking Horses respond to manual pressuresSubject(s)
Horse Diseases/diagnosis
, Horses/physiology
, Lameness, Animal/diagnosis
, Nociceptors/physiology
, Pain Threshold/physiology
, Physical Conditioning, Animal/methods
, Animals
, Biomechanical Phenomena
, Female
, Gait/physiology
, Horse Diseases/chemically induced
, Lameness, Animal/chemically induced
, Male
, Pain Measurement/methods
, Pain Measurement/veterinary
, Physical Conditioning, Animal/physiology
, Pressure
, Sensitivity and Specificity
, Severity of Illness Index
