{"id":777034364,"date":"2025-11-10T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034364"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:16:55","slug":"grnsw-secures-leading-expert-for-future-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/grnsw-secures-leading-expert-for-future-projects","title":{"rendered":"GRNSW engages research specialist for welfare projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Helen Davies will contribute to the hock strap project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first project is hock strap, which involves development of a support brace to potentially protect and strengthen an area of a greyhound\u2019s leg where many injuries occur. Hock injuries represent the leading cause of injury among racing greyhounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said: \u201cThe 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.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe hock strap development with GRNSW is of great interest to me and I am looking forward to assisting where I can,\u201d she said. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Australian sports stars lead VGCCC campaign urging players to \u201cset before you bet\u201d<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helen Davies will contribute to the hock strap project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777034367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) has engaged Associate Professor Helen Davies to lead future animal welfare projects, commencing with the development of a hock strap. This initiative aims to mitigate hock injuries, a primary cause of harm among racing greyhounds, underscoring the industry's focus on enhancing animal welfare and regulatory compliance.","focusai_entities":"Helen Davies, Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), University of Melbourne","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Hock Strap Implementation Timeline?","query":"What is the projected timeline for the hock strap's development, testing, and potential industry-wide implementation across Greyhound Racing NSW operations?"},{"label":"Efficacy Validation Metrics?","query":"How will the efficacy of the hock strap be independently validated, and what specific metrics will be used to assess its impact on reducing hock injury rates in racing greyhounds?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,23876],"tags":[24691,24589,24980],"class_list":["post-777034364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-social-news","tag-animal-welfare","tag-greyhound","tag-grnsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777034364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034400,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034364\/revisions\/777034400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777034367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}