Lameness Lab #2: Is this horse lame?
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Early detection and treatment of lameness is the best course of action to help maintain a horses' soundness throughout its lifetime.
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Understanding lameness is complex. However detecting lameness can be much easier. Here, with the help of Equine Guelph we are offering a series of videos to help you learn and understand how to identify lameness in your own horse before the vet arrives. Watch the video. Determine your answer. Then keep watching to see what the vet has to say. For more great videos check out www.equineguelph.ca
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These lameness lab videos are very informative, thanks for posting!
They are my favorite
Excellent video, thank you for this. SO helpful to me to be able to see what to look for!!
Noticed immediately that this was a front leg issue, I also find it easier not just to see the head bob, but also which leg lands heavier. This lameness is even more severe than another video I watched early.
initially i was sure it was the front left instead, but this makes a lot of sense! i'm still learning about horses. very informative 👍
I believe he's off in the right hind as well.
I got it right. I always look at (with frontlegs) the foot they are falling at, that one takes all the weight. The other foot is lame.
Would also like to know in these videos what has caused the lameness, but great videos thank you.
Thanks for sharing videos of the beautiful horse. 🧡🐴
Front right. Probably a sore coffin joint. Look for obvious swelling around coronet band palpate for fluid. Should be hoof tested, pulse checked. Other leg looks sore probably from compensating.
I looked at two of the videos, I don't know if it was supposed to be simple but I just looked for a limp and which leg the horse favoured instead of the other (paired front & back) if any, I think once you look for that its easiest, probably easier to do from video recording than with the naked eye too.
I request to u ..please share the remedies of same case
Did they really need to see it on a circle 🙄
Hi! I bought a toroughbred english. He stayed for 2 years, and now I worked with him for about 45 minutes, and the next day he couldn't step on his right front leg. Does he have a medical problem because he was used to racing?
Thanks also congratulations for what you do with the horses!
Got it right!
Yay!!!
Front right at back half of foot. My guess would be navicular if I were to bet someone $5 without further testing.
It was clear that the right front was the issue, but can you tell me what the final diagnosis was on this horse? Was he sore in the heel (or other hoof structure), shoulder, lower leg?
No idea. This was just a series of educational videos. Sorry!
OK
why would you run him that much if you know he's lame
it's called a lameness exam, to see what triggers his limping (whether it be a walk, trot, canter etc) and to determine which leg is in pain.
Head goes up when the affected foot hits the ground.
Head goes down when good foot hits the ground.
a horse has to walk for you to see where the lameness is...you do realize that, right? some horses will not show lameness at the walk, but will at the trot; some horses it will only show when you have them trot the circle because there's an uneven distribution of their weight. it is good to see both, in an educational video meant to help owners and riders identify lameness in their own horses. if you can't see it, how do you learn? he was not put through much, and likely immediately treated afterward as this is a vet clinic doing this. it's better to walk a little to save the pain of who knows how many other horses who are lame but their owners don't know exactly what to look for until they're SO lame that it's completely obvious.
Serafina Starseed I agree with you
Agreed. No horse owner would do this to their animal except for a vet's diagnosis. When a horse owner sees that their horse is this lame they will instantly stop and treat the leg. This additional trotting can also injure an animal further. This is ONLY done by vets for teaching. Vet exams don't normally put an animal through this if they are lame.
@@claretheworm I think they know it's a lameness exam, but Serafina is right. This is excessive and totally unnecessary. When a human limps severely you don't ask them to run up and down the hall over and over to see the limp. It's obvious in the first few seconds and further running just injures it further and increases healing time or the chances that it never recovers.
This type of excessive trotting on a clearly injured leg is ONLY done to teach vets to spot lameness, otherwise a vet exam would end in a few strides with "WHoa! Whoa! He's really lame! Just stop". and then treatment would be discussed. No vet would run a lame horse this much is a standard "lameness exam".
Right front knee
Lame in both right and left
If the horse is lame why do u keep running her and working with her?
Oof this one was obvious. Definitely easier to tell on the front than hind.
Fromt right?
I GOT IT
What causes this and can it be cured?
Just like with humans it can be all kinds of things. Lameness just means "it hurts". For humans we limp because of arthritis pain, broken bones, sprained tendons or ligaments or even something so simple as ill fitting shoes, a thumbtack in our foot or a simple blister. Often you can't tell why.
If this is your own horse you would instantly stop trotting and walking the animal if you saw him limp like this. No one trots a lame horse like this. It's heartbreaking and injures the animal further. If this was your animal you would instantly stop work, check for possible causes for this. Perhaps you might feel for swelling and heat in the leg.
Often I iced (30 minutes on and 30 minutes off) or cold hosed a horse's legs whenever lameness showed up and often the horse gets better in a few days, then you take a few slow weeks to gradually reintroduce them to work again. Not too fast. Just like humans, often a small sprain will be easily fixed with rest, ice, wrapping and a soft bed.
Horse owners often ONLY ask a vet when the horse has sudden extreme lameness with no readily understood cause or the lameness has gone on for weeks or longer. Just like you don't go to the doctor when you have a slight cramp, horse owners normally don't take the horse in for expensive and painful tests unless the problem hasn't resolved with easy remedies.
Right front lame
It just looked like the right front leg was stiffer. I got it right
Down is sound is what my vet says, so the foot he puts his head up on is lame. Lame on right front.
OMG THIS HORSE IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LAME NO SWAG AT ALL
You do know what "lame" means, in horse terms, right?
So is that joke
Yes the horse is lame I see it!