CURO Canine

OVERVIEW: The CURO Canine app is designed for Veterinarians and Dog Trainers and works together with a MyoDynamik CURO system to record muscle contractions during periods of physical activity.CURO-Diagnostics ApS Developer BACKGROUND: Acoustic Myography (AMG) (also known as phonomyography, sound myography, vibromyography, and surface mechanomyogram) is a technique that measures the low frequency sounds (1 Hz to 200 Hz) created during muscular activity — sounds that can often be heard with ones ear pressed up against a contracting muscle. VETERINARIANS: can use this tool to help them locate and assess a muscle related injury. Our CURO system is capable of accurately recording the contractions made by active muscles — no need to shave or prepare the dog. DOG TRAINERS: can use the CURO to better assess a dog's strength, endurance, efficiency and coordination as well as better identify muscle injuries and follow their recovery. - Simply select the muscle/muscles of interest using our app - Rub in our acoustic gel to ensure good acoustic contact with the dogs skin - Place our sensor on the gel - Tape the sensor in place with the bandage provided - Connect the sensor to the CURO - Activate the CURO and establish a WiFi link with our app - Start recording in real-time The applications for which the CURO has been tested include: - Muscle imbalance assessment - Muscle wasting assessment - Training tool — with fatigue assessment - Jumping tool — with take-off and landing - Lameness assessment The CURO system not only presents muscle sounds in real-time it also provides a real-time balance score to enable you to detect muscle imbalances with the aid of our unique ESTi-TM Score. AMG-measurements are sent to an iPad so you can immediately see how your dog's muscles function. ESTi TM INTERPRETATION: The CURO system is unique in that it measures the number of active fibers (spatial summation; S) and the frequency with which they contract (temporal summation; T) as well as the way in which the Central Nervous System (CNS) recruits and uses the active fibers in a muscle (synchrony/ efficiency; E). It is only by combining the timing aspect of muscle fiber contraction that one can start to assess the synchrony with which the CNS recruits active fibers in a muscle — and in so doing, more accurately determine the significance of both the signal amplitude and frequency. E - Efficiency: the E-parameter refers to the period of muscle fiber activity during a recorded period of exercise — muscle efficiency. A high score obtained during moderate to high levels of exercise is a sign of a very well trained and highly coordinated / efficient muscle movement. S — Spatial summation: the S-parameter refers to the number of muscle fibers recruited during a movement, as part of exercise or a muscle contraction. A high score obtained during moderate to high levels of exercise is a sign of a very well trained and highly coordinated muscle movement. T — Temporal summation: the T-parameter refers to the speed with which muscle fibers are activated repeatedly during a movement, as part of exercise or a muscle contraction. A high score obtained during moderate to high levels of exercise is a sign of a very well trained and highly coordinated muscle movement. In addition to these individual scores, the CURO system calculates the ESTi TM Balance for muscle groups — allowing the user to quickly assess muscle imbalances in the body that could give rise to lameness or early fatigue and muscle soreness. ESTi Balance: ± 10% from ZERO = MILD IMBALANCE ± 20% from ZERO = MODERATE IMBALANCE > ± 20% from ZERO = SERIOUS IMBALANCE