Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of leg lameness
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While surgery alone can improve septic navicular bursitis prognoses, recent study results suggest outcomes can be even better if surgery is combined with antimicrobials and therapeutic shoeing.
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Texas-based farrier David Gilliam hopes his new nonprofit, Equine Soundness Professionals, will help improve horse health by promoting increased collaboration between farriers and veterinarians.
Osteoarthritis can hinder and even end the athletic careers of otherwise healthy horses. Learn more about early intervention and management during our webcast.
Researchers confirmed that synovial fluid is toxic to inner tendon cells, which could help explain why injuries within tendon sheaths and bursae have a poor prognosis for healing, they said.
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While researchers have discovered much about EMS over the years, there’s still more to learn not only about the link between obesity, insulin, and laminitis but also how to manage animals to help prevent them from becoming obese and/or developing insulin dysregulation.
The program explored the latest findings on health and welfare aspects of the horse and rider relationship, from new techniques in equine pain recognition to rider posture and equine biomechanics.
Riding at fast speeds at the start of endurance rides often leads to elimination during veterinary checks, researchers have learned. And while that might seem like common sense, many riders continue to ride too fast in rides’ early stages, one scientists said.
Knowing elimination risk factors can help veterinarians, riders, and trainers make informed decisions to safeguard endurance horse welfare, researchers say.
Most Norwegian-Swedish Coldblooded Trotters are bred for racing. Thus, understanding how long their careers typically last is essential not just from a product quality perspective but also from an animal welfare perspective, researchers said.
Most modifications made to the traditional distal limb compression bandage did not appear to improve their efficacy, researchers found.
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.
Read the latest in equine health research, news, and information presented at the 2018 British Equine Veterinary Congress in Birmingham, England.
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