Understanding Back Pain
Les Sellnow
November 1, 2002
There are many causes for back pain in horses, and they can range from the dramatic to the benign.
Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of leg lameness
There are many causes for back pain in horses, and they can range from the dramatic to the benign.
Q: My trainer says that my 1 1/2-year-old Thoroughbred colt is forging, but only at the trot. What can I do?
A private $3 million gift from Mrs. Barbara Cox Anthony will establish an endowed chair at Colorado State University’s Orthopaedic Research Center within the College of Veterinary Medicine. The chair will provide a secure source of funding
Pharmacia Animal Health recently announced a $5,000 pledge to a fundraising campaign supporting the Equine Science Center at Cook College of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
The campaign goal is to raise $7 million by
In many cases, you can completely cure the horse of the underlying ailment that causes his stiffness. And even in cases where the horse suffers from a chronic condition such as arthritis, your careful, consistent efforts to battle stiffness can improve his performance and, more important, his quality of life and his pleasure of performing with you.
One of the most common comments at the 15th annual Bluegrass Laminitis Symposium in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 21-23, 2002, was that if farriers or veterinarians don’t have a passion for working on laminitic horses, they shouldn’t take the cases.
Diagnostic ultrasound has become a popular means of monitoring the healing of superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) injuries, also known as bowed tendons. As image analysis software has been developed, the technique has become more widespread
My Tennessee Walking Horse often “flicks” his left front foot when putting it forward. What could cause this?
“Navicular disease is very difficult to study, because you can’t reproduce it in a normal horse,” said Earl Gaughan, DVM, of Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. “You can’t then work backward from the disease to find a cure.
The scene at a horse sale is familiar. The smell of coffee fills the air as early morning enthusiasts walk through the barns. A first-time-off-the-farm filly whinnies as her dam is trotted down the aisle for a group watching her stride. A man”P>The scene at a horse sale is familiar. The smell of coffee fills the air as early morning enthusiasts walk throug
A variety of topics, ranging from the sophisticated to the mundane, were discussed by presenters who offered their findings under the umbrella subject–The Foot.
Opening the session was Tracy A. Turner, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, of the
Thermography is a means of examining the horse through a pictorial representation of skin temperature. The technique detects thermal emissions of normal, hotter, and cooler areas, and a thermogram displays slight temperature variations as visual imag
Most veterinarians and farriers agree that navicular-type lameness is the foot’s response to stress, particularly repetitive stress that can put uneven pressure on different parts of the horse’s foot.
The infrared heat that a horse emits from its body can be viewed via a specialized camera and monitor. The heat patterns that can be seen show a trained practitioner how the blood flow is normal, or abnormal, in a particular horse. “he infrared heat that a horse emits from its body can be viewed via a specialized camera and monitor. The heat patterns that can be seen show a trained practitioner how the “e infrared heat that a horse emits from its body can be viewed via a specialized camera and monitor. The heat patte” infrared heat that a horse emits from its body can be view”infr
Dr. E.E. Watson was a veterinarian of some repute for many years in the Midwest during the middle decades of the 20th Century. He not only treated racehorses, but he bred them, owned them, and trained them. One year in the late 1950s, he had a
Many times radiographs fail to show even stress fractures. Enter nuclear scintigraphy. This sophisticated technology uses radioactive material that, combined with a bone-seeking agent, is capable of locating stress fractures and other bone damage.
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