| ESWT | Extracorporeal shockwave therapy |
| OA | Osteoarthritis |
| CBPI | Canine Brief Pain Inventory |
| CSOM | Client Specific Outcome Measures |
| BCS | body condition score |
| PVP | Peak vertical pressure |
| VI | Vertical impulse |
| ROM | Range of motion |
| TPLO | Tibial plateau leveling osteotomy |
| IEWG | International Elbow Working Group |
| SI | Symmetry index |
| FL | Forelimb |
| HL | Hindlimb |
| ICC | Intraclass-correlation coefficient |
| RMSE | Root mean square error |
| robustlmm | Robust linear mixed effects models |
| emmeans | Estimated marginal means |