
A New Way to Detect Humeral Stress Fractures in Racehorses
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.
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.
Ultrasound and x ray exams can help identify horses potentially at-risk for injury so they can be managed appropriately.
Good-quality ultrasonography is reasonably reliable for detecting PSD, but it underestimates the presence of adhesions.
Equine Veterinarians Australia takes a look at what goes on behind the scenes with racehorse practitioners.
Learn how vets use a technique called FLASH, a targeted abdominal ultrasound examination, to diagnose colic.
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