Lameness: Recognizing And Treating The Horse's Most Common Ailment

Lameness: Recognizing And Treating The Horse's Most Common Ailment

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<div><font face="Tms Rmn">Lameness, one of the most common and most troublesome of all equine ailments, remains the primary reason why horses are unable to fulfill their potential and their riders' and trainers' expectations. More preparation time is lost, more competitions are missed, and more careers are prematurely ended because of lameness than any other condition.</font><br><br><font face="Tms Rmn">This book analyzes the causes, diagnoses, and management of the myriad causes of lameness:</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Defining and identifying the lame leg; spotting gait abnormalities and non-muscular causes; physical examinations and evaluations; diagnostic tools and other tests; the role of the veterinarian and farrier in pre-purchase examinations.</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Physical therapies; the applicability of rest, medications, and other veterinary procedures.</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Hoof conformation and shoeing options.</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Joint, bone, muscle, and tendon and ligament problems.</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Neurological, dermatological, and developmental orthopedic causes of lameness.</font><br><font face="Tms Rmn">--Treatment of specific conditions to the foot, pastern and fetlock, cannon and splint bones, knee, upper foreleg, hock, upper hind leg, and back.</font><br><br><font face="Tms Rmn">No other book covers this vital subject in such a comprehensive and understandable fashion. For that reason, no other book deserves a more prominent place on the shelf of anyone who owns, trains, rides, or drives horses.</font><br><br></div>