Expert lameness assessment paper with eye tracking published – free open access
It has been a while since Sandra undertook the mammoth task of travelling around the country with a portable eye
The LamenessTrainer is a free, interactive online game teaching equine lameness assessment. Thousands of people use it every year and it is now used for teaching in veterinary schools around the world.
The LamenessTrainer was created in 2014 by Sandra Starke, Gregory Miles and Stephen May from the Royal Veterinary College (UK), at its conception kindly funded by the Eranda Foundation. It is based on decades worth of published research into the biomechanics of equine lameness and now even features in Adams and Stashak’s Lameness in Horses!
Give it a go – you will be amazed how quickly you are able to pick up even subtle lameness.
In this module you will learn to:
Detect forelimb lameness
Determine the lame limb
Correctly differentiate between sound and mildly lame horses
In this module you will learn to:
Detect simplified hind limb lameness based on vertical displacement asymmetry, without hip rotation
Determine the lame limb
Correctly differentiate between sound and mildly lame horses
In this module you will learn to:
Detect hind limb lameness based on realistic hip movement including hip rotation
Determine the lame limb based on vertical displacement asymmetry or comparative movement of the hips
Correctly differentiate between sound and mildly lame horses
This module lets you practice your new skills on hundreds of horses, containing the 2-year caseload of some lameness experts!
You will practice to:
Correctly evaluate different horses for lameness irrespective of their fur colour
Assign consistent lameness scores
If you too use the LamenessTrainer for teaching, it would be great to hear from you.
It has been a while since Sandra undertook the mammoth task of travelling around the country with a portable eye
We have spent a long time trying to understand why hind limb lameness can be such an odd one to
Our evaluation paper on the ‘Effect of gamified perceptual learning on visual detection and discrimination skills in equine gait assessment’
We would like to thank the Wetenschappelijke Vereniging voor de Gezondheid van het Paard (WVGP) for their donation which will
For any queries about the game, the team and our publications, please just get in touch.
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