Our gelding’s broken hock has healed with what the veterinarian calls bone spurs. He believes the spurs could be rubbing against our gelding’s tendon, causing pain. What is the long-term prognosis for injuries such as these?
Our equine nutritionist offers feeding advice to help the stocked-up horse.
Consider the big picture—from farrier care and diet to environment and genetics—when working to keep horse hooves healthy.
Here are four crucial areas to include in your horse grooming routine.
Learn more about the equine athletes that compete at rodeo events, the types of injuries they are prone to, and how veterinarians nurse them back to health.
Is your horse’s clumsiness a simple matter of long toes and uneven ground, or is a career-limiting condition to blame?
Researchers recently identified a link between hind-limb lameness and coffin bone angles, which they said has not been previously described in horses.
Most modifications made to the traditional distal limb compression bandage did not appear to improve their efficacy, researchers found.
Dr. Kyla Ortved explains the terminology veterinarians and horse people use to describe navicular syndrome and what it all means.
Skin problems were the most common general disease reported (33% of all syndromes recorded) and nonhoof-related lower limb lameness was the most common individual issue reported (18.5% of all syndromes recorded).
Read top tweets and take-home messages from industry experts on common racing injuries, their approach to effective rehab and what they’ve seen horses go on to do after recovery.
Learn how to manage this incurable disease that causes debilitating lameness in horses.
Do all young horses with fluid-filled joints or lameness have osteochondritis dissecans (OCD)? Download this fact sheet to find out.
Boots and wraps protect the horse’s limbs. But have you ever asked yourself why or how these dressings protect a horse’s leg–or if they even do?
If left untreated, cutaneous lymphangitis can cause permanent leg disfigurement. Here’s what to know about this condition.
When cases are selected appropriately, the complication rate is very low and the prognosis for a full return to work is very good, one veterinarian says.
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