Health Articles

Arthroscopic Surgery: is it for treatment, diagnosis or both?
Lameness: Diagnostic Tests - Jun 18th, 02
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 lameness, but also in its ...

Scintigraphy
Lameness: Diagnostic Tests - Jun 18th, 02
Not too many years ago, advanced imaging techniques such as radiography, ultrasonography, and scintigraphy only were available in human medicine or in veterinary university teaching hospital...

The Use of Thermography in Lameness Evaluation
Lameness: Diagnostic Tests - Jun 18th, 02
Lameness diagnosis can be very frustrating when the source of pain is located in the upper leg and is not associated with a synovial structure, or the lameness is too subtle to utilize diagn...

Flex Test
Lameness: Diagnostic Tests - Jun 18th, 02
Revised May 2008     You’ve decided to sell your horse. The potential buyer has sent a veterinarian to our farm to perform a purchase exam. As you stand beaming with satisfactio...

Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Horses: What We Know
Lameness: Diagnostic Tests - May 19th, 03
Revised May 2008     A shock wave is an acoustic (pressure) wave with very high amplitude and rapid rise time. There are multiple ways to generate a shock wave. The pressure wave ...