Table 1.
Clinical orthopaedic findings in cattle included in the study.
The clinical cases were randomly allocated to either the ketoprofen (group K) or placebo group (group P) and further categorized into foot (located up to and including the fetlock) vs. (proximal to the fetlock). The categories were included as independent variables of logistic regression model for ketoprofen treatment. The limb pathologies were arranged from distal to proximal location.
Table 2.
Definitions of gait cycle variables (cow pedogram; temporal events [kinematic outcome = relative stance phase] and peaks [kinetic outcome = foot load, toe-off]) extracted by use of the Cow-Gait-Analyzer as described by Alsaaod et al. [28] and the 4-scale weighing platform variables (Mean weight distribution and SDweight) as described by Nechanitzky et al. [24].
Table 3.
Mean (±SD) of gait cycle and weighing platform variables of ketoprofen group (K) versus placebo group (P) at baseline (T0), ΔT1 (the differences between (T0) and after 1 h (T1) of ketoprofen administration) and ΔT18 (the differences between (T0) and after 18 h (T18) of ketoprofen administration).
The gait cycle variables and the 4-scale weighing platform variables were calculated as the difference across the contralateral limbs.