Elin Hernlund honored with Ingvar Fredricson Foundation Scholarship
Our co-founder Dr. Elin Hernlund has been awarded the 2025 Ingvar Fredricson Foundation Scholarship, together with Professors Lars Roepstorff and Marie Rhodin (SLU).
New functionality? Of course, one of the perks of using Sleip is that we are committed to constantly improving the app and adding new, useful features. With no hardware to install, it’s easy to access updates.
The primary goals of most comprehensive lameness examinations is to localise the source(s) of pain. Blocking certain nerve pathways with local anaesthetics and continuing to observe the horse’s motion pattern helps veterinarians isolate the issue causing lameness.
With a new function to label diagnostic analgesia using a drop-down menu, veterinarians can now easily document the block(s) performed. The blocks are connected to specific recordings that can be compared to a baseline.
“The menu covers most diagnostic analgesia, categorised by limb and type of block, i.e. intra-articular or regional. A separate button is provided for diagnostic analgesia of the axial skeleton. This feature provides a shortcut to documentation and makes it easier to compare recordings before and after different blocks”, explains Aagje Hardeman, DVM, PhD and Customer Success Manager at Sleip.
The documentation can also be valuable in learning to recognise biomechanical patterns: "In the future, data from clinical patients could be referenced as further guidance in diagnosing lameness, thereby helping the veterinarian to improve their orthopaedic examination," says Aagje Hardeman.
Initially, the labelling function is only available for straight-line recordings, but work is underway to enable tagging connected to longeing.
Would you like to see other blocks added to the menu? Drop us a line at hello@sleip.com.
Our co-founder Dr. Elin Hernlund has been awarded the 2025 Ingvar Fredricson Foundation Scholarship, together with Professors Lars Roepstorff and Marie Rhodin (SLU).
New research using insurance data from over 15,000 Swedish Warmbloods highlights how sex, discipline, and early training impact orthopaedic disease risk. Co-authored by Sleip’s Elin Hernlund, the study offers based on population-level data for early detection and prevention in sport horses.
Trunk movement is now shown alongside head and pelvis — giving you an extra reference point when interpreting complex asymmetry patterns.