02 January 2021 02 Jan 2021

Volume 5 | Issue 1

ISSN (Print): 2516-0583

ISSN (Online): 2516-0591

Ours is a unique set of circumstances

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Figure 1. Conformation can be assessed by viewing the horse from the side with the metatarsus perpendicular to the ground. This horse has long toe, low-heel conformation with a broken-back hoof-pastern axis (red line).

Therapeutic farriery of the hind feet for horses with hindlimb orthopaedic injuries

Diarrhoea in foals

Figure 2. Rhodococcus equi-associated acute uveitis in a foal. Marked aqueous flare and hypopyon with feint corneal oedema. The condition was bilateral and appeared to be only mildly painful, as is often the case.

Immune-mediated disorders of the eye: part two – equine recurrent uveitis

Figure 2. Photograph of a horse with hindlimb digital flexor tendon sheath effusion. Note the ‘notch’ created by the constrictive plantar annular ligament (green arrow), resulting in effusion bulging proximal and distal to this level.

Diagnosis of digital flexor tendon sheath conditions in the horse

EquineReview

Potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on horse behaviour in the UK between March and October 2020

Figure 2. Dynamic mobilisation exercises: A Chin to knee; B Chin between fetlocks; C Chin to girth;and, D Chin to stifle. The horse is motivated, by using food bait, to move through a range of motion that results in cervical and thoracolumbar flexion (images A and B) and lateral flexion (images C and D). The intervertebral angles have been described by Clayton et al (2010 and 2012) and the effect on spinal muscle cross-sectional area by Stubb et al (2011) and de Oliveira et al (2015).

Physiotherapy for neck pain in the horse