Axis-dependent relationships and agreement between whole-body and limb-specific center of pressure measurements in dogs
Christiane Lutonsky, Nadja Affenzeller, Julia Wegscheider, Masoud Aghapour, Christian Peham, Barbara Bockstahler · 2026
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Christiane Lutonsky and co-authors compare ways of measuring balance in standing dogs in this 2026 study. Vets use a pressure plate to track the center of pressure, but labs differ: some use the whole body, others the front or back legs alone. Whether those numbers can be swapped was unclear.
Healthy dogs stood on the plate while the team computed each variant, with and without scaling to the support size. Side-to-side sway matched across methods better than front-to-back sway. Other measures correlated moderately to strongly, yet formal agreement tests showed steady offsets between methods. Scaling did not fix the gaps. The authors warn that methods must match when studies are compared.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Christiane Lutonsky, Nadja Affenzeller, Julia Wegscheider, Masoud Aghapour, Christian Peham, Barbara Bockstahler |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |