What a Longitudinal 5-Year Study Reveals About Pain, Performance & Early Intervention Dressage horses are among the most closely scrutinised equine athletes, yet truly longitudinal, repeat-exam datasets are remarkably rare. A new open-access retrospective longitudinal…
By Dr Sue Dyson, Dr Kathryn Phillips, Dr Shichen Zheng, and Dr Monica AlemanPublished in Equine Veterinary Journal, June 2024 For years, veterinarians have debated whether congenital variants of the ventral laminae of the sixth…
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…
Few individuals in equine veterinary medicine have had a career as impactful and illustrious as Dr Sue Dyson, the Equine Performance Consultant. Renowned globally as a pioneer in the field of equine lameness, Sue’s contributions…