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Health: Emergency
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Step Off the Laminitis Bandwagon
These days, and for every horse that is correctly diagnosed and treated as a result of that, great. However, as often happens with a disease du jour, some folks are carrying things too far, seeing laminitis in hoof changes that can have other explanations and leading owners into management... | read »

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Horse First Aid: Coping with a Cut
As a horse owner, sooner or later you'll encounter a laceration--whether it's a minor cut that's easily managed or a major accident that you know right away needs veterinary attention. But what about those lacerations that fall in between obviously minor and very bad? How do you know when to... | read »

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Health: Emergency
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Hock Problems in Horses
The hock is a complex joint and is analogous to our ankle joint. While it is the most common site of lameness in the hind leg of performance horses, I don't believe one should assume it to be where the problem lies whenever a horse is sore behind. The early life problems in the hock, as in... | read »

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Pigeon Fever in Horses
"Pigeon Fever," (AKA dry-land distemper) is a colloquial term used to define a condition affecting horses. The term came about because the typical location of the lesion, which starts out as a deep abscess, is in the pectoral area. However, these abscesses can occur on any part of a horse.... | read »

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Health: Emergency
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The Equine Fecal Blood Test for Ulcers Worries Us
Human fecal blood testing is used as a screening test for cancer in the bowel. There's a considerable amount of debate in human medicine over the value of the test for many reasons (e.g. false positives) and how well it actually reflects the presence of cancer. Basically, the medical... | read »

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Bruising in Your Horse's Hoof
I have a gelding who had what seemed like an abscess in his hind foot. He wasn't dead lame, but he did respond negatively to pressure from the hoof testers and had heat and swelling in his leg. We did an Epsom salt dressing, and the next day I saw obvious bruising in his hoof. I applied light... | read »

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Arthroscopic Surgery
Arthroscopic surgery has become a commonly used technology in dealing with joint problems in the horse. Arthroscopic surgery enables a complete visual evaluation of the internal structures of a joint in the horse, as well as surgical correction of solvable problems with minimal... | read »

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Navicular Disease in Horses
Better diagnostic tools for imaging the horse's hoof are shedding new light on navicular disease and navicular syndrome in horses. There's a difference between navicular disease and navicular syndrome, although they overlap, and researchers are now uncovering several more causes for the... | read »

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Health: Emergency
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Wound Healing in Horses
Wound healing in horses can be problematical because of differences in how they heal. Wounds of the upper body of the horse, above the hock or knee, heal amazingly well and relatively quickly. With wounds of the distal limbs on horses, however, it can be frustrating and time consuming to... | read »

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Health: Emergency
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'Choke' Obstructs Breathing in Horses
"Choke" is a common term used for an obstruction of the esophagus in horses. It really has nothing to do with the respiratory system as one might think from the word. However, considering the symptoms a horse expresses with this condition, it's easy to understand how the term came into use.... | read »

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Bumps and Lumps: First Aid
Every now and then, your horse will bash into something, hit his hipbone, or bang his knee. Most of the time, these are minor injuries that will go away on their own.

A lump or bump is caused by trauma to an area that causes underlying swelling and possibly a broken blood vessel under... | read

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