Accelerometric Changes before and after Capacitive Resistive Electric Transfer Therapy in Horses with Thoracolumbar Pain Compared to a SHAM Procedure

David Argüelles Capilla; Mireya Becero; Ana Muñoz; Aritz Saitua; Toni Ramón; Eduard Gascón; Antonia Sánchez de Medina; Marta Prades

doi:10.3390/ani10122305

Accelerometric Changes before and after Capacitive Resistive Electric Transfer Therapy in Horses with Thoracolumbar Pain Compared to a SHAM Procedure

David Argüelles Capilla, Mireya Becero, Ana Muñoz, Aritz Saitua, Toni Ramón, Eduard Gascón, Antonia Sánchez de Medina, Marta Prades

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La transferència elèctrica resistiva capacitiva (CRET), a radiofreqüència a 448 kHz, ha demostrat que augmenta l'oxigenació muscular i la flexibilitat del quàdriceps en humans. En aquest estudi, divuit cavalls esportius amb dolor toracolumbar es van dividir en dos grups homogenis: CRET (n = 9), sotmesos a quatre sessions de CRET durant dues setmanes consecutives, i SHAM (n = 9), sotmesos al mateix procediment però sense el dispositiu. Es va fer un examen clínic i una accelerometria al començament i al final de l'estudi. Es van usar els tests de Mann-Whitney i Wilcoxon per comparar els grups de CRET amb els de SHAM, abans i després de la intervenció. Els cavalls de CRET van mostrar una reducció d'un grau en el dolor toracolumbar (p = 0.002) i de dos graus en el dolor muscular epaxial (p = 0.03). Els cavalls de SHAM van tenir una reducció d'un grau en el dolor toracolumbar (p = 0.01). Els cavalls de CRET van mostrar un augment de la força dorsoventral al trot i al galop (p < 0.002), que probablement reflecteix l'augment del moviment dorsoventral i la flexibilitat. No es va trobar cap modificació en el desplaçament dorsolumbar del centre de gravetat en els dos grups. El nostre estudi ha demostrat que els cavalls esportius amb dolor toracolumbar lleu a moderat poden millorar clínicament i biomecànicament després d'una teràpia CRET. La transferència elèctrica resistiva capacitiva (CRET), una radiofreqüència a 448 kHz, augmenta la flexibilitat dels quàdriceps en els atletes humans. Per avaluar si el CRET podria millorar clínicament i biomecànicament als cavalls amb dolor toracolumbar, divuit cavalls esportius es van dividir en dos grups: CRET (n = 9), sotmesos a quatre sessions de CRET durant dues setmanes consecutives, i SHAM (n = 9), sotmesos al mateix procediment però sense el dispositiu. Es va fer un examen clínic i una accelerometria abans i després de les quatre sessions. Durant l'estudi, els cavalls estaven entrenant-se i competint activament, i no van rebre cap altre tractament. Els tests de Mann-Whitney i Wilcoxon es van usar per comparar entre els grups SHAM i CRET, i abans i després de la intervenció, respectivament. Els cavalls de CRET van mostrar un augment de la força dorsoventral (p < 0.002), mediolateral i total (p < 0.01) després de la intervenció, que reflecteix una major flexibilitat dorsolumbar. Els cavalls de SHAM no van mostrar cap modificació després de la intervenció. No es va trobar cap canvi en el desplaçament dorsolumbar del centre de gravetat en els dos grups. El dolor toracolumbar va disminuir un grau després del CRET (p = 0.002), i no va canviar després del SHAM. El dolor epaxial muscular va disminuir dos graus després del CRET (p = 0.03) i un grau després del SHAM (p = 0.01). Aquests resultats reflecteixen que la teràpia de CRET augmentaria la flexibilitat dorsolumbar i disminuiria el dolor toracolumbar i epaxial.

Idioma original	Anglès
Revista	Animals
Volum	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10122305
Estat de la publicació	Publicada - 2020

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