Pre-Purchase Exams
…circle on hard ground or pavement. ”When is the horse ever going to have to do an eight-meter circle on the driveway’ I feel I have enough lameness experience to…
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Controlling Thrush
The tell-tale foul odor of thrush is something no barn owner wants on the farm. Besides the odor, thrush can also lead to chronic foot problems and lameness. The Disease…
Bulletin Board: 12/01
…———- Lameness Costs Us $678 Million A Year Lameness costs U.S. horseowners about $678 million a year, according to an analysis published last month by the USDA. The study also…
Management Changes For Avoiding Bruises
…up in the air. In general, abscesses make the horse more dramatically lame, even three-legged lame, in a higher percentage of cases than a bruise, although even this is not…
Your Horse`s Aching Sacroiliac Joint
…area as a cause of lameness. A sacroiliac injury would be suspected on a horse with a hind-end lameness that can’t be localized to joints or soft tissues lower down…
Ask Horse Journal: 05/06
…high contracted heel and has been lame off and on for the past three years in the right front. There’s never any swelling, heat or increased pulse in the foot….
Veterinary Tool: Bone Scan
Perplexing lamenesses seem to be more the norm than the rarity for veterinarians. The broad scope of medications and treatments available today virtually eliminate many of the simpler soundness problems…
Over-Reaching
…a light bandage. If the degree of lameness isn’t improving in a few days, or more importantly gets worse, a professional evaluation by a veterinarian is indicated. The worse-case scenario…
How to Wrap a Bowed Tendon
…and lameness. A bowed tendon is a serious threat to a horse’s performance career because the healed tendon is weaker and less elastic than the pre-injury tendon, and therefore more…
Ask Horse Journal: 06/03
…morning he was quite lame. The lameness gradually disappeared within three days. Some swelling remains at the fetlock, which we bandage. Aside from slight short striding, there is no lameness…
