Researchers developed the new method for horses based on work conducted in humans. The procedure involves two stabilization devices: an intervertebral device to reduce compression and screws with rotating heads and connecting rods to stabilize the vertebrae.
Veterinarians often prescribe medications to control acute and chronic clinical signs of disease, along with recommending environmental changes to limit asthmatic horses’ exposure to inhaled allergens. What do owners think of these sometimes time-consuming and expensive suggestions?
Chemotherapy can help horses with lymphoma achieve remission and extend their lifespans for several months or years, researchers learned.
Here are four crucial areas to include in your horse grooming routine.
When veterinarians applied a compression bandage to the horse’s pastern before administering a palmar digital nerve block, the drugs remained localized to the hoof rather than spreading further up into the leg.
While wire ingestion was once considered a death sentence, researchers recently found that surgery can save some affected horses, especially if the foreign body is identified and treated early.
Horses are at risk of adverse effects anytime they receive injections. However, researchers recently determined that stem cell injection site reactions in horses were uncommon in the population they studied.
Recent study results suggest the overall septic arthritis rate following surgery was 0.47%, which is similar to previously reported rates. Further, researchers found no association between inpatients’ and outpatients’ septic arthritis development rate.
Researchers found that their technique for removing ostoechondral fragments from the hock was efficient and had few postoperative complications.
Results from a recent pilot study suggest that vibrating plates could help increase hoof growth rates when used consistently, but variably.
Two veterinarians share what has remained the same and what’s changing when it comes to diagnosing and treating this frustrating condition, once known as navicular. Read an excerpt from this in-depth article in our July 2018 issue.
Recognizing variations in strongyle populations across the country can help veterinarians refine parasite control recommendations depending on region, pasture access, horse age, and more.
Catheter complications in horses are rare, and in most cases the benefits of catheter use “far outweigh the risks,” researchers say.
At this time there’s no evidence that EIPH affects barrel racing horses’ performance, but more research on the topic is needed, scientists say.
When veterinarians detected pregnancy loss in horses early enough for mares to be rebred, 57.3% delivered a live foal the following spring. Of those, mares 3 to 8 years old had a 73% live-foaling rate.
Most EIA testing is done on a voluntary basis–owners aren’t necessarily required to test every horse at set intervals–making it very difficult to know the disease’s true prevalence, one researcher says.
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