Researchers will use remote video and heart rate monitoring to assess discomfort behaviors before and after epidural pain treatment to improve patient care and pain management.
Researchers will evaluate the effect of blocking a key protein involved in fat metabolism that may help improve quality of life for cats with osteoarthritis.
Researchers will investigate if chronic pain associated with osteoarthritis has a neuropathic pain component that can be modulated by pleasant and unpleasant sensory stimuli.
Researchers will validate an owner questionnaire designed to help them recognize and monitor the signs of chronic osteoarthritis pain in horses to improve care for horses suffering from this condition.
Researchers will quantify how horses adapt muscle function and limb and upper body movements to cope with lameness, providing a greater understanding of clinical signs that can guide assessment and earlier intervention.
Researchers will determine if stem cells from horse bone marrow can reduce bacterial biofilm formation and associated inflammation that cause treatment failure and tissue damage in horses with orthopedic infections.