3.5. Re-Injury Rates and Return to Training
re-injuries
RECURRENCE
Five out of the seven horses in the MSC group were back in training including gallop after 12 months of follow-up, without having suffered a re-injury. Moreover, these horses remained free of recurrence until the end of the follow-up at 18 months (In the control group, three out of the seven horses were back in training including gallop without having suffered a re-injury until 12 months after treatment. Two of them were still free of re-injuries 18 months after treatment; the third was not available for follow-up anymore. The remaining four horses in the control group had suffered a re-injury during the period of 12 months after treatment. Out of these, one horse presented with a second re-injury 18 months after treatment, and one was no longer available for the 18-month examination (Comparing the re-injured equine patients to those without re-injury 12 or 18 months after treatment, no significant differences existed regarding patient age, duration of symptoms at presentation, or lesion size (