Category: Soundness

Equine Joint Injection Simulator Created for Vet Students

Using what seems like a high-tech version of the child’s game “Operation,” some veterinary students can now practice giving equine joint injections using a simulator constructed of foam, rubber bands, nylon tights, and an electric buzzer.

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Coffin Bone Fractures

Most horse owners pick up quickly on visible changes to their horses’ hooves. Thrush, cracks, and punctures are issues easily detected and (hopefully) treated. But what happens when injuries occur to structures hidden within the hoof capsule? Read complete article

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Researchers Study Sesamoid Bone Shape Differences

The training and racing of 2-year-old Thoroughbreds has always been a source of debate in the racing world due to concerns that exerting young skeletons might make horses more likely to injure themselves.

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Managing the Club Foot

A horse with slightly asymmetrical feet is nothing out of the ordinary.

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Doppler Ultrasonography for Monitoring Tendonitis in Horses

Recent study results suggest that the colors displayed by Doppler ultrasonography could help veterinarians better follow the healing processes of certain conditions, like tendonitis.

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Complementary Medicine: On the Rise

Veterinary care takes many forms these days, with practitioners relying on both traditional Western approaches as well as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) strategies to alleviate patients’ pain and illness

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Local Anesthesia’s Effect on MRIs of Horse Feet (AAEP 2011)

The effect of diagnostic anesthesia on the interpretation of MRI is unknown

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Equine JOCC Project Conclusions Revealed

(JOCCs) now that a major project on the disorders has concluded and its results have been published in the Veterinary Journal.

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Lameness Head to Foot, Part 1: Lower Limbs

The horse’s hoof walls had separated in both feet, with severe coffin bone rotation in the right front

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Long Toes in Horses: A Pain in the Butt?

Your equine athlete’s performance hasn’t been blue ribbon-worthy as of late

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Equine Osteochondrosis Terminology Revamped

For decades, diseases of the bones, joints, and cartilage in young horses have sparked many word-slinging debates among researchers.

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New Osteochondrosis Lesion Scoring System Developed

When it comes to scoring osteochondrosis lesions in young horses, a scale of one to five just won’t do.

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Equine Gait Analysis Takes Step Forward

The Royal Veterinary College, in the United Kingdom, used sensors to accurately measure a horse’s movements and to quantify limb movement outside the traditional gait laboratory

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Some Osteochondral Lesions Could Resolve Naturally

A new study has shown that up to two-thirds of all radiographic findings in weanlings can change—usually for the better—within a year.

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Hoof-Care Triage

…it’s hard to keep calm when you arrive at the barn to find your horse three-legged lame or with some foreign object spearing the sole of his foot…

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