GRNSW engages research specialist for welfare projects

Helen Davies will contribute to the hock strap project.

Australia.- The Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) has announced that it has engaged associate professor Helen Davies to guide it in a number of future welfare projects.

The first project is hock strap, which involves development of a support brace to potentially protect and strengthen an area of a greyhound’s leg where many injuries occur. Hock injuries represent the leading cause of injury among racing greyhounds.

Davies taught anatomy at the University of Melbourne for more than 30 years and has pursued research interests in the functional anatomy of athletic animals, especially horses and dogs. She continues to publish papers from her work under the University of Melbourne as an honorary appointment.

She said: “The reduction of athletic injuries in dogs and horses has been a primary interest of all my research and especially ways to measure responses to exercise so that injury risk can be understood in time to prevent accumulating damage and breakdown.” 

“The hock strap development with GRNSW is of great interest to me and I am looking forward to assisting where I can,” she said. “The development and testing of practical ways to identify dogs at risk and possible effects of any interventions (like the hock strap) are essential in understanding what factors drive the accumulation of injury.”

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Helen Davies will contribute to the hock strap project. Australia.- The Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) has announced that it has engaged associate professor Helen Davies to guide it in a…