Again, as with thrush, anything removing the counter-pressure of the frog with the ground and throwing that organ out of play, may be looked upon as a predisposing cause. The atrophy of the frog thus occurring, the deterioration in the quality of its horn and the fissures in its surface ...
In practice, a stride is defined as the period between two successive hoof falls of the same leg. For the present work and each protocol, “strides” are defined from the maximum peak on the Z-axis, which corresponds to the dorso-ventral axis, (cf. Figure 1) of the raw acceleration ...