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Cornell helps aging dogs increase their quality of life
Jill Lopez Jill Lopez

Cornell helps aging dogs increase their quality of life

TUG stands for “timed up and go.” It’s a test derived from human medicine, timing how long it takes someone to get up from a chair, walk a distance, turn around and sit back down. Chris Frye, D.V.M. section chief of the Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, is senior author on a paper in the American Journal of Veterinary Research that establishes TUG as the first practical and reliable functional test of canine geriatric mobility.

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