Table 4.

Mean (cm) and coefficient of variance of base of support (cm) for the thoracic (TL) and pelvic (PL) limbs in dogs with thoracolumbar spinal cord injury due to acute intervertebral disc extrusion at day 3, 10 and 30 following decompressive surgery (n=27 dogs, 28 episodes of SCI).

Dog^a	Base of support TL						Base of support PL
	Day3		Day 10		Day 30		Day 3		Day 10		Day 30
	Mean	COV	Mean	COV	Mean	COV	Mean	COV	Mean	COV	Mean	COV
1	3.95	0.57	4.48	0.73	4.02	0.73	9.12	0.44	10.74	0.40	11.27	0.31
2	6.60	0.40	5.67	0.43	5.74	0.31	7.10	0.40	6.38	0.35	8.06	0.36
3	7.06	0.29	6.59	0.30	5.91	0.28	4.18	0.40	5.70	0.31	6.46	0.31
4	7.34	0.32	7.43	0.26	8.71	0.31	7.23	0.89	5.81	0.28	6.53	0.31
5	10.30	0.19	10.30	0.17	10.12	0.15	10.36	0.24	10.12	0.17	10.58	0.23
6	12.05	0.15	9.99	0.48	10.02	0.33	11.75	0.32	16.74	0.35	15.95	0.13
7	10.07	0.43	8.01	0.40	6.56	0.48	4.89	0.77	4.98	0.58	5.79	0.51
8	9.58	0.38	8.37	0.31	10.15	0.33	10.64	0.27	10.95	0.24	8.76	0.36
9	9.00	0.35	6.99	0.26	7.17	0.34	6.71	0.49	6.20	0.31	7.52	0.30
10	11.24	0.39	14.46	0.36	11.15	0.36	12.31	0.46	14.23	0.28	13.31	0.28
11	9.26	0.43	6.20	0.55	6.67	0.34	6.17	0.65	5.21	0.45	5.19	0.71
12	6.73	0.58	4.52	0.61	5.91	0.46	8.51	0.41	7.64	0.36	3.79	0.49
13	6.16	0.36	6.14	0.27	6.09	0.37	3.68	0.63	6.15	0.48	6.69	0.33
14			9.33	0.43	11.26	0.30			6.86	0.84	9.74	0.31
15			5.54	0.47	6.33	0.33			4.65	0.66	2.44	0.65
16			8.93	0.54	8.81	0.52			8.31	0.72	8.21	0.44
17			6.18	0.42	4.80	0.54			4.52	0.50	5.87	0.27
18			5.02	0.43	6.28	0.45			8.46	0.44	8.05	0.45
19			7.53	0.73	5.60	0.53			7.62	0.77	7.22	0.38
20			8.08	0.27	7.18	0.28			7.60	0.35	7.23	0.29
21			10.06	0.28	8.85	0.35			3.85	0.84	6.64	0.32
22					6.86	0.32					2.05	1.05
23					6.49	0.33					6.88	0.45
24					9.45	0.23					9.86	0.22
25					5.09	0.46					6.42	0.49
26					12.49	0.28					12.31	0.24
27					12.24	0.32					10.10	0.71
28					10.66	0.30					12.29	0.53
Mean	8.41	0.37	7.61	0.41	7.88	0.37	7.90	0.49	7.75	0.46	8.04	0.41

Missing values represent dogs unable to walk unsupported in the pelvic limbs at time of testing.