Health Articles

Arthroscopic Surgery: Is It for Treatment or Diagnosis or Both?
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 16th, 02
Lydia F. Miller, DVM, Arthroscopic surgery is the best tool veterinarians have for visually inspecting the condition of a joint. That gives it a place not only in the treatment of joint la...

Coffin Bone Fractures
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 16th, 02
My horse has been diagnosed with a fractured coffin bone. What could have caused it, and what is the prognosis? Fractures of the coffin bone or distal phalanx usually occur in the horse fol...

Joint Therapy: Is It the Right Decision for Your Horse?
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 16th, 02
The public demand for a precise diagnosis and treatment of lameness problems has increased many fold over the past decade. Horse owners, through exposure to state-of-the-art medicine and a m...

Pop! It's Back
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 16th, 02
Recurring “popped splints” has sidelined many older equine athletes, but a group of Kentucky surgeons may have come up with a solution. In the vocabulary of injuries a horse might receive,...

Popped Knees
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 16th, 02
I was talking to one of my e-mail friends last night, and she said her horse had a "popped" knee. I hated to seem ignorant, but I have no idea what that means. Can you help? "Popped knees"...

Bone Chips Fall Into Different Categories
Lameness: Bone and Joint Problems - Jun 19th, 02
What are bone chips and how do they occur?   Bone chips or chip fractures of horses’ joints are properly termed "osteochondral fragments." Osteo (Latin for bone) and chondral (Latin fo...