I’ve asked myself this question more times than I can count, especially in my early years of practice. Would I trust myself with my own horse? On a good day? Maybe.On a bad day? I’m…
Bone fractures remain one of the most devastating injuries in equine practice, particularly among Thoroughbred racehorses. Despite improvements in training protocols and track safety, catastrophic fractures continue to claim the lives of approximately 60 horses…
If you’re wondering applying for and sitting ANZCVS Membership is worth the time, stress, or sacrifice – you’re not the only one. I’ve been in your shoes. Balancing clients, callouts, and life, while quietly wondering…
The horse is lame and lameness is abolished by palmar digital nerve blocks. You’ve acquired what you think is a good set of radiographs but you are unable to detect any radiological abnormality. You went…
The navicular bone is a sesamoid bone, comprised of compact bone surrounding the trabecular bone or spongiosa. In a normal bone the trabecular bone and the uniformly radiopaque compact bone are clearly demarcated. The thickness…
You’re looking at a horse with a short, choppy stride in front. The lameness is low-grade, inconsistent, maybe bilateral. You nerve block the palmar digital nerves and see some improvement. Radiographs look within normal limits….
You’ve acquired a good-quality dorsoproximal-palmarodistal oblique (DPr-PaDiO) image of the navicular bone. There are six radiolucent zones (synovial invaginations) at the distal border—maybe seven, depending on how you count them. The horse shows mild, bilateral…
If you’ve been hearing the word “tariffs” lately and wondering if it’s going to ruin your business or the practice you work in, you’re not alone. Many equine veterinarians are reading the headlines, seeing prices…
You’ve probably seen it dozens of times. A 7-year-old horse presents with a small hook on the distal edge of the upper corner incisor – 103 or 203. You reach for the float, maybe without…
You’ve probably seen it before. A horse with no obvious pathology, no fractures, no feed packing… and yet a cheek tooth is unexpectedly mobile. Or worse – already lost. We tend to blame the tooth….
You’ve got the horse sedated, the speculum in place, and your mirror positioned. There’s something off about the 109s. A dark, irregular patch inside the infundibulum. Is it cemental wear? A feed stain? Early caries?…
Somewhere along the way, “floating teeth” became code for “smooth them out.” I see it all the time. Perfectly flat arcades, sharp enamel points completely removed, and the veterinarian walking away thinking they’ve done the…
For decades, Galvayne’s Groove has been held up as a standard reference point for aging horses by their teeth – taught in vet schools, shared among practitioners, and repeated in textbooks without much question. But…
You’ve probably seen the news. A veterinarian caught on video. A public apology. Then silence. Then a body found in Lake Mead, USA. All news reports will tell you what happened. But almost none are…
