Barbara Bockstahler

TL;DR: Caloric restriction combined with intensive physical therapy improved mobility and facilitated weight loss in overweight dogs and the combination of dietetic and physical therapy may help to improve the health status more efficiently than dietetic treatment alone.

TL;DR: The results of one study in dogs suggest that preventing the development of overweightness and obesity reduces the prevalence of hip dysplasia and OA of the hip and other joints.

TL;DR: It was concluded that the ground reaction forces determined by a treadmill system are suitable and provide reproducible parameters in canine gait analysis and enable simultaneous measurement of all four legs of dogs at a constant velocity walk.

TL;DR: These evidence-based data indicated that each evaluated exercise, except for downhill walking, has a specific therapeutic value in physical therapy for dogs.

TL;DR: This study revealed that dogs with borderline HD had altered joint kinematics, which provides basic kinematic values for clinically sound and affected dogs and can be used to investigate the long-term effects for subclinical radiographic changes of the hip joints of dogs.