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  2. Treatment of equine lameness - Wikipedia

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    Monitoring soft tissue injury with ultrasound allows for a more scientific determination of when to introduce exercise back into the horse's rehabilitation program, and for quick intervention should the injury worsen. Recently, a new ultrasound technique called color Doppler ultrasonography has been used to assess equine tendon injuries. Color ...

  3. Pin firing - Wikipedia

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    Pin firing, also known as thermocautery, [1] is the treatment of an injury to a horse's leg, by burning or freezing. This is supposed to induce a counter-irritation and speed and/or improve healing. This treatment is used more often on racehorses than on other performance horses.

  4. Bowed tendon - Wikipedia

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    A bowed tendon is a horseman's term for a tendon after a horse has sustained an injury that causes swelling in one or more tendons creating a "bowed" appearance. Bilateral bowed tendons. Description of tendinitis in horses

  5. Our top tips for taking care of your horse - AOL

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    First and foremost is a horse’s right to the five freedoms: from hunger, pain, injury, fear and to behave in a way that a horse naturally does. All our dealings with our horses should be in the ...

  6. Lameness (equine) - Wikipedia

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    A horse with bowed tendons. Bowed tendon: tendinitis of the superficial or deep digital flexor tendons, which leads to a "bowed" appearance when the tendon is seen in profile. Considered a lameness when acute, and a blemish once healed, although the tendon is at greater risk for re-injury.

  7. Navicular syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Heel pain is very common in horses with navicular syndrome. Lameness may begin as mild and intermittent, and progress to severe. This may be due to strain and inflammation of the ligaments supporting the navicular bone, reduced blood flow and increased pressure within the hoof, damage to the navicular bursa or DDF tendon, or from cartilage erosion.

  8. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen recovering from multiple injuries ...

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    Nebraska's Republican Gov. Jim Pillen was in intensive care at a hospital on Monday to be treated for injuries after he was thrown off a horse while riding with his family the day before. Pillen ...

  9. Curb (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Curb is defined in older literature as enlargement secondary to inflammation and thickening of the long plantar ligament in horses. [1] However, with the widespread use of diagnostic ultrasonography in equine medicine, curb has been redefined as a collection of soft tissue injuries of the distal plantar hock region.