One practitioner describes her diagnostic imaging decision-making process when assessing Western performance horse soundness during prepurchase exams.
How equine practitioners can use ultrasound to evaluate the multifidus muscle, which stabilizes and supports the equine back.
Here’s what we know and are learning about defining, diagnosing, and treating this painful foot disease.
Current horse breeding trends are characterized by a decline in mares bred and a new focus on well-being of established pregnancies, as well as enhanced genetic selection related to the health and future performance of foals.
Researchers confirmed that ultrasound is a useful and economical screening tool to identify humeral stress fractures and can be used with radiography to monitor healing.
Tendons and ligaments are meant stretch and flex. So it must be bad news when hard material forms within them, right? Not necessarily, researchers say.
Where do we go from here? Find out from Charlie Scoggins, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACT, who’s a fertility clinician at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
Ultrasound is a useful screening tool for assessing some deep digital flexor tendon lesions, but it could cause veterinarians to underestimate navicular bursa and collateral sesamoidean ligament lesions.
Chronic colic in horses presents a unique challenge and creates a diagnostic puzzle for veterinarians to piece together. Here’s how they approach it.
Ultrasonography allowed researchers to detect subclinical lesions in young foals and implement treatment promptly.
Find out how veterinarians and farriers rely on imaging to evaluate the horse’s hoof.
Veterinarians can keep diagnostic costs lower by using as much information from routine tests as possible.
Drs. Tim Parkin and Sarah Plevin describe studies focused on predicting injury before it occurs.
Understand the costs of veterinary care before you’re faced with a sick or injured horse.
Researchers confirmed that transabdominal ultrasonography can reliably identify worm burdens of more than 10 ascarids.
A researcher offers tips on how veterinarians can pinpoint the cause in unresolved upper hind limb lameness cases.
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