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Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine in Companion Animals
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Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine in Companion Animals

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 3052

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. David Levine

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Department of Physical Therapy, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA
Interests: canine rehabilitation and physical therapy; orthopedic rehabilitation; neurological rehabilitation; manual therapy; infection control; gait analysis
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Prof. Dr. Darryl Millis

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Guest Editor
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: orthopedic surgery; physical therapy; rehabilitation; small animals
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sports medicine and rehabilitation is a well-established discipline in human medicine, and the benefits have been clearly documented and established in the medical literature. Awareness of this field in veterinary medicine has been rapidly growing, and the techniques used in human sports medicine and rehabilitation are being adapted for use in small animal patients. There is a clear need and a significant interest on the part of the veterinary profession to better understand the role of sports medicine and physical rehabilitation following injury, surgery, and illness, and to improve patient outcomes by incorporating this specialty. The growing interest in sports medicine and physical rehabilitation among veterinarians has led to the formation of new specialty colleges, such as the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.

This Research Topic seeks to address the science of small animal sports medicine and rehabilitation to help provide a better understanding of the assessment methods, treatment techniques, and interventions utilized. We welcome original research and reviews that help to advance and expand this field.

Prof. Dr. David Levine
Prof. Dr. Darryl Millis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Rehabilitation
  • Canine Rehabilitation
  • Small Animals
  • Companion Animals
  • Physical Therapy
  • Canine Physical Therapy
  • Sports Medicine
  • Orthopedics
  • Neurology

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Use of Omics Data in Fracture Prediction; a Scoping and Systematic Review in Horses and Humans
by Seungmee Lee, Melissa E. Baker, Michael Clinton and Sarah E. Taylor
Animals 2021, 11(4), 959; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11040959 - 30 Mar 2021
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Despite many recent advances in imaging and epidemiological data analysis, musculoskeletal injuries continue to be a welfare issue in racehorses. Peptide biomarker studies have failed to consistently predict bone injury. Molecular profiling studies provide an opportunity to study equine musculoskeletal disease. A systematic [...] Read more.
Despite many recent advances in imaging and epidemiological data analysis, musculoskeletal injuries continue to be a welfare issue in racehorses. Peptide biomarker studies have failed to consistently predict bone injury. Molecular profiling studies provide an opportunity to study equine musculoskeletal disease. A systematic review of the literature was performed using preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses protocols (PRISMA-P) guidelines to assess the use of miRNA profiling studies in equine and human musculoskeletal injuries. Data were extracted from 40 papers between 2008 and 2020. Three miRNA studies profiling equine musculoskeletal disease were identified, none of which related to equine stress fractures. Eleven papers studied miRNA profiles in osteoporotic human patients with fractures, but differentially expressed miRNAs were not consistent between studies. MicroRNA target prediction programmes also produced conflicting results between studies. Exercise affected miRNA profiles in both horse and human studies (e.g., miR-21 was upregulated by endurance exercise and miR-125b was downregulated by exercise). MicroRNA profiling studies in horses continue to emerge, but as yet, no miRNA profile can reliably predict the occurrence of fractures. It is very important that future studies are well designed to mitigate the effects of variation in sample size, exercise and normalisation methods. Full article
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