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The horse is evaluated in motion, usually at the walk and trot, but occasionally also in the canter. The walk is often the best gait to evaluate foot placement. [10] The trot is generally the best gait to localize the lameness to a particular leg, because it is a symmetrical gait where the front half of the horse and the back half move in ...
Signs for both sporadic and chronic ER can include a reluctance to move, stiffness or shortened gait when the animal is forced to move typically found in the hind legs, and muscle spasms or cramps, with hard, painful muscles (especially the hindquarters) when palpated. [4]
In the beginning, it's hard to detect DSLD in horses due to mild or sporadic lameness. Yet, as it advances, distinct signs like heat, swelling, and pain in the suspensory ligaments emerge. An altered gait or a flat-footed stance due to a sinking fetlock joint are also indicative of the disease. [3]
Bandaging is especially important in cases of severe swelling, such as cellulitis, which can cause continued lameness if the edema persists after the initial cause has been successfully treated. [14] Bandaging may also be helpful in reducing pain, by stimulating mechanoreceptors. [3]
Injuries to and problems with horse legs can be relatively minor, such as stocking up, which causes swelling without lameness, or quite serious. Even leg injuries that are not immediately fatal may still be life-threatening to horses, as their bodies are adapted to bear weight on all four legs and serious problems can result if this is not ...
Wobbler disease or wobbler's syndrome is a broad category of cervical disorders in the horse, including the conditions listed above, as well as equine wobbles anemia and cervical vertebral myelopathy, spinal cord compression (sometimes referred to colloquially among horse owners as "cervical arthritis" due to the arthritis that accumulates in facets).
“A Charley horse every once in a while that you can relate back to exercising or exercising in extreme weather is likely not worrisome, but if you can’t find a reason for it and they are ...
The walk, a four-beat gait. The walk is a four-beat gait that averages about 7 kilometres per hour (4.3 mph). When walking, a horse's legs follow this sequence: left hind leg, left front leg, right hind leg, right front leg, in a regular 1-2-3-4 beat.