Pre-clinical and clinical walking kinematics in female breeding pigs with lameness: A nested case-control cohort study. Issue 1 (July 2015) - Stavrakakis, S.
Highlights Gait kinematics of replacement gilts were evaluated before and during visually diagnosed lameness in a long-term study. Relative, rather than absolute, gait measures were identified as the best quantitative clinical lame ness indicators. Some spatiotemporal gait parameters were better than others for detection and evaluation of gait abnormalities. The step-to-stride length ratio was altered in pre-clinical pigs and may be used as an early predictor for lameness.