Veterinarians Discuss Preferred Rehab Techniques for Horses
Alexandra Beckstett
May 16, 2019
Address the entire horse, not just the injury, when bringing a patient back to work, veterinarians say.
Address the entire horse, not just the injury, when bringing a patient back to work, veterinarians say.
Researchers confirmed that a technique called acoustic myography could be useful for evaluating suspensory ligament function, which could mean more straightforward diagnoses, treatment recommendations, and monitoring of these injuries as they heal.
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Such tendon injuries include those that affect commonly injured tendons at unusual sites, uncommonly hurt tendons, or where the pathology itself is unusual.
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.
Most modifications made to the traditional distal limb compression bandage did not appear to improve their efficacy, researchers found.
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Researchers found that treating suspensory ligament branch tears surgically generally yielded a good prognosis and proved superior to noninvasive management. However, they cautioned, surgical intervention is lesion-specific and not applicable to all suspensory branch injuries.
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Researchers concluded that high-power laser therapy, administered with the device tested in this study, is safe, results in fairly low reinjury rates, and affords a fairly quick return to performance.
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