Equine Tendon Injuries: Reducing the Strain
Sherry A. Johnson, DVM, MS Dipl. ACVSMR
November 20, 2024
Learn how to recognize a tendon injury and what you and your veterinarian can do to treat it.
Learn how to recognize a tendon injury and what you and your veterinarian can do to treat it.
Read about the significance and prevalence of these injuries and how veterinarians diagnose them.
Researchers are exploring improved ways to heal these notoriously complicated soft tissue structures.
Learn about 4 common injuries veterinarians see in these athletes, how they diagnose them, and what treatments and rehabilitation methods they use.
Consider the horse’s lameness history and gradually increase varied exercises to manage these mounts, one veterinarian says.
An off-track Thoroughbred with a mild suspensory strain has heat in the opposing hock. Could this mean he’s compensating for the suspensory injury?
Scott Anderson, DVM, explains how shock wave therapy can help a suspensory ligament injury heal quickly and successfully.
Soft tissue injuries can occur in any horse. Learn about the injury cascade and how to help horses on the road to recovery.
Mesenchymal stem cells might improve the prognosis for horses with suspensory ligament injuries previously associated with negative outcomes.
Tendon and ligament injuries are leading causes of poor performance in horses. Learn about different conventional and therapeutic treatment modalities in this visual guide.
Using orthobiologics to treat tendon and ligament injuries might help lengthen a horse’s career and minimize associated joint issues and chronic pain.
A research team used ultrasound to establish normal proximal suspensory ligament cross-sectional areas of cutting horses.
At the 2022 BEVA Congress, one presenter discussed the challenges associated with SDFT injuries, plus potential solutions.
Veterinarians share their advice for preventing lower-limb problems and rehabilitating injured horses, from therapies to back-to-work schedules.
MRI imaging of the stifle joint has shown evidence of injuries to a variety of soft and hard tissues.
Look for educational information about soft tissue injuries in horses on TheHorse.com starting November 21.
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