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A look at three of the most common tendon and ligament injuries in horses and how veterinarians treat them.
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broken coffin bone. Pedial osteosis, HUGE abcess at coronary band.
9/1/2013 11:21:30 PM
8/31/2013 7:06:26 PM
over the years, founder, abcesses and cuts
8/31/2013 2:24:09 PM
8/31/2013 1:14:57 PM
I didn't know there was such a thing...
8/30/2013 5:02:21 PM
I am a trimer and I must say rehabing after removal of Rocker Shoes rates at the top of my list !
8/30/2013 1:53:15 PM
loss of 1/3 hoof up to coronary treatment for white line disease
8/30/2013 1:17:31 PM
yes a nail punture at the appex of the frog, thankfully it was at end of a 8 week cycle and was fine
8/30/2013 12:59:51 PM
No emergencies other then coffin bones going through the sole
8/30/2013 12:19:40 AM
Rescued a severly foundered Tennessee Wlaker.
8/30/2013 12:14:53 AM
poison induced capsule ejection, Dr Strasser's method helped keep the capsules on, n saved mare
8/29/2013 10:58:00 PM
Not sure if Navicular counts but I have been lucky to only have to deal with the occasional abcess
8/29/2013 9:28:59 PM
front hoof abscess
8/29/2013 9:26:35 PM
critical hoof situation, but not emergency
8/29/2013 6:56:22 PM
8/29/2013 6:54:03 PM
Toe-clip puncture wound followed, 10 days later, by shoe nail in "good" hoof. May never shoe again!
8/29/2013 6:26:11 PM
8/29/2013 5:41:33 PM
8/29/2013 5:24:38 PM
8/29/2013 3:52:23 PM
8/28/2013 10:52:16 PM
A 2.5 inch nail thru the sole. Horse was mildy lame but had a high104 fever.
8/28/2013 10:25:40 PM
8/28/2013 9:56:27 PM
Half the hoof was cut off, horse put down.
8/28/2013 8:27:42 PM
My senior horse had to have 2/3 of his hoof resected
8/28/2013 5:21:42 PM
Don't mess around- CALL THE VET!
8/28/2013 5:21:03 PM
8/28/2013 5:08:29 PM
laminitis and nail in foot and frog
8/28/2013 5:07:50 PM
The horse stepped on a nail that went through the sole and out the back of the heel bulb. VET CALL!
8/28/2013 3:22:05 PM
My last mare had back 1/4 of her hoof cut off (vet) after an injury-she sliced it on a metal gate
8/28/2013 2:42:35 PM
My 2yr Draft horse had an absces at the cornet band.You could look into her hoof when she walk ugg
8/28/2013 2:06:10 PM
My 13yr old event horse actually had a piece od rebar puncture is left hind hoof
8/28/2013 1:52:42 PM
8/28/2013 10:48:26 AM
While being ridden horse suffered a "quarter crack", with severe pain and gushing of blood. Now OK!
8/28/2013 10:11:58 AM
8/28/2013 9:10:09 AM
8/28/2013 7:31:39 AM
gelding kicked off half a hind hoof in the trailer, blood smeared everywhere, but he was never lame!
8/28/2013 7:03:26 AM
Thank God, no!
8/28/2013 5:12:55 AM
Yes - serious puncture wound, also laceration deep into coronary band.
8/28/2013 12:15:53 AM
nail in the hoof sole.
8/27/2013 11:41:17 PM
8/27/2013 10:46:43 PM
Yearling slid foot under metal sheeting and sliced 1 1/2 " by 1 1/2 " slice down to top of hoof.
8/27/2013 10:21:34 PM
Sudden lameness, it ended up being an abscess....
8/27/2013 10:15:53 PM
Thank goodness nothing more than an abscess.
8/27/2013 10:04:33 PM
8/27/2013 9:32:32 PM
bad abcess in a front hoof
8/27/2013 9:27:57 PM
fractured coffin bone in hind foot
8/27/2013 8:35:35 PM
No, thank God!
8/27/2013 8:27:57 PM
laminitis - with two different horses
8/27/2013 8:14:59 PM
Bad hoof abscess
8/27/2013 7:46:11 PM
horse galloped over a limestone outcropping in the paddock. It was euthanased with a heart rate 100
8/27/2013 7:40:02 PM
I have been dealing with spongy feet, because of all the rain.
8/27/2013 6:50:25 PM
If you count laminitis, and yes, my mini was too fat. Comfortable within a week and is now reducing.
8/27/2013 6:49:17 PM
Arab colt caught hoof under stall wall, pulled most of it off. Healed deformed, was breeding sound.
8/27/2013 6:22:42 PM
Horse had 1/2 his hoof torn off when he got caught in a fence, took a year and a half to grow back
8/27/2013 6:03:53 PM
8/27/2013 6:01:45 PM
Coronary band injury and stone bruises
8/27/2013 5:42:12 PM
1" roofing nail at point of frog streight in.
8/27/2013 5:39:43 PM
Had a very nasty cut along the coronary band that had arterial blood spray. Full recovery.
8/27/2013 5:37:46 PM
My horse was allowed to get severe laminitis & if it weren't for my amazing farrier she wouldve died
8/27/2013 5:37:05 PM
8/27/2013 5:32:04 PM
Been lucky so far!
8/27/2013 5:05:38 PM
several over the years---laminitis, large nail stuck in sole, cut bulb of heel through hoof
8/27/2013 4:41:26 PM
Inside bulb of my mare's front hoof was sliced 'almost' off and needed quick stitches to save it.
8/27/2013 4:40:41 PM
It's pretty frightening until the farrier gets there~!
8/27/2013 4:29:42 PM
8/27/2013 4:23:26 PM
Need most current research on Cushings related rotation of coffin bone.
8/27/2013 4:14:28 PM
Deeply embedded nail.
8/27/2013 3:55:25 PM
Yes. Laminitis. Hate it. Poor horse. He was IR.
8/27/2013 10:48:54 AM
My mare had a nail in her hoof
8/27/2013 10:02:49 AM
severe nail puncture in hoof,vet had to x-ray for fragments
8/27/2013 9:51:36 AM
ringbone upper and lower same foot, received a alchol fusion and the pain is better
8/27/2013 7:29:21 AM
8/27/2013 5:29:30 AM
8/27/2013 1:00:07 AM
Abcesses - three areas in one foot. Anothe rhuge abcess that two weeks to resolve.
8/27/2013 12:57:06 AM
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