Category: Soft Tissue Injuries

Tips for Returning Horses to Work After Soft-Tissue Injury

This process generally comprises 25% treatment and 75% rehabilitation

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Rehabilitation Exercises from the Ground

When a horse suffers a musculoskeletal injury, the following events typically include a diagnosis, treatment, and return to soundness

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Study: Boots, Wraps Increase Leg Heat During Exercise

Tendon boots help protect horses’ front legs from injuries such as hoof strikes or collisions with jumps

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Study: Vets Disagree on Equine Neurologic Assessments

Researchers noted, this could lead to an “inaccurate or unreliable assessment of an underlying problem (which) might lead to misdiagnosis or inappropriate further testing and treatments.”

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Developing the Sport Horse: Common Injuries

We’ll highlight three common injuries and different modalities that can help your horse onto the road to recovery (and a few preventive tips). And, we’ll outline different treatments to help manage the injuries discussed in an easy-to-read table.

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Understanding the Biomechanics of Lameness

Equine locomotion seems like a sophisticated thing. All those delicate bones, joints, tendons, and muscles must move in tandem to propel the horse’s large body forward at varying speeds. Read complete article

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Rehabilitating Horses with Back Problems

Time-tested mobilization exercises and cutting-edge physical therapy techniques.

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Treating Suspensory Injuries with Fetlock Support Shoes

Veterinarians and farriers apply a wide variety of horseshoes to treat the plethora of hoof problems that come our horses’ way, not to mention issues farther up the limb.

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Study: Owners Might Miss Signs of Equine Back Pain

In a recent study, caretakers estimated that less than 12% of horses at various equestrian centers had back pain

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HERDA’s Impact on Tendons, Blood Vessels Studied

Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia, more commonly known as HERDA, is often thought of as a skin disease that affects mainly Quarter Horses, primarily in the cutting horse industry.

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Managing Axillary Wounds in Horses

When it comes to equine axillary wounds—those that damage the space between the inside of the upper limb and the body wall

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Underwater Treadmill Exercise’s Effects on Horses’ Backs

Back pain is often implicated as a cause of poor performance, so how can veterinarians and owners help a horse’s back return to health?

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Diagnosing Unusual Hock Lameness

With six bones articulating in close range and multiple tendons and ligaments controlling extension and flexion, the hock, or the horse equivalent of the human ankle, has many moving and shock-absorbing parts

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Equine Lameness 101

With the Chinese New Year beginning on Jan. 31, it is time we recognize the New Year’s Chinese Zodiac: the horse, symbolizing character traits such as intelligence, energy, and strength.

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Low Heel/High Heel Syndrome

We need to decide what that means and whether it is normal—and thus an inconsequential finding.

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