Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of leg lameness
Hock arthritis can cause poor performance and lameness in horses. Learn how to manage your horse after a diagnosis of this common condition.
Researchers are exploring improved ways to heal these notoriously complicated soft tissue structures.
Discover what issues can affect your horse’s back, sacroiliac joint, and pelvis and how vets address them. Read more in this article from the Fall 2024 issue of The Horse.
Dr. Avi Blake describes equine degenerative joint disease, how it occurs, clinical signs, diagnostics, and treatment options. Sponsored by American Regent Animal Health.
Learn about the clinical signs of neck or back issues in horses and how they are diagnosed. Sponsored by Asto CT.
Find out how you can keep your metabolically efficient horse healthy when he’s laid up with an injury or chronic illness.
There are right and wrong ways to bandage horses’ limbs, no matter the wrap’s purpose.
What’s going on inside your horse’s hooves during injury or disease? Sources reveal what they’ve learned about common hoof conditions such as abscesses and sheared heels.
Imbalances in horses’ hind hooves can lead to hock, tendon, ligament, and even lumbar pain; precise radiograph-guided farriery can help.
Getting to the root of podotrochlosis is an ongoing process. Learn about risk factors for the disease and how veterinarians diagnose it.
Navicular syndrome, once feared as a career-ending diagnosis, can now be managed more effectively, despite ongoing challenges.
Learn about two different and unrelated processes that present as firm swellings in the horse’s pastern region.
What to expect when a veterinarian performs a prepurchase exam on a prospective equine partner.
Two experts explain how you can improve your horse’s joint health through nutrition and how to choose high-quality joint supplements.
Overly moist, dry and brittle hooves tend to break and bruise, leaving horses footsore or causing issues with shoe retention. Here are tips for hardening hooves.
With so many supplements to choose from, it’s important to know what options are effective. Here’s a look at supplement ingredients that are backed by science.
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