Weight Building After Winter
…lameness issue keeping your horse from eating and drinking well? • Does your horse have signs of parasitism, such as a big belly or a poor hair coat? • Are…
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Proper Horse Health Care Involve Diets
…of metabolic problems. Lameness: Lameness is one of the most common health problems in horses. It causes pain for the horse and robs you of time in the saddle. The…
Melanomas And Non-Grays
…pressure on local nerves and blood supply. Hind-limb lameness as a result has been reported. Lameness can also result if tumors spread directly into the muscles of the hind limb….
Diagnosing Equine Shoulder Pain
…of the lameness to improve with local anesthetic blocks to the knee and lower legs. • Improvement of the lameness .with local anesthesia to the shoulder area. Those last two…
Flexion Tests For Horses
…to see if the test causes any obvious discomfort or worsening of lameness. With a positive test, the first few steps when the horse jogs off will show an obvious…
Buying a Horse With a Bowed Tendon
…imaging tendon injuries than the more sophisticated technology available for tendon diagnosis.) If your veterinarian isn’t known for doing a lot of lameness and ultrasound work, ask him if he’s…
Progress in Equine Pain Recognition
…who suddenly starts refusing to accomplish tasks that it used to find easy requires a careful evaluation as early signs of lameness rather than misbehaving could be the culprit. As…
Five common biases that hurt performance
…personality is that internal traits are considered difficult, if not impossible, to change. If I blame a rider’s personality for cutting me off, there’s nothing much either of us can…
Spice Up Your Pain Relief
…tests and degree of lameness despite this reaction. Overall, we found capsaicin lotions less effective than the cream products. As with all products, discontinue use if irritation develops. We had…
An MRI May Get Right To The Cause
It wasn’t that long ago that X-rays were the only diagnostic tool available to veterinarians for determining the cause of lameness. But X-rays have drawbacks, including the inability to show…