Author: EQUINE RESEARCH
Title: Lameness Recognizing and Treating the Horse's Most Common Ailment
Description: Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 1592286674. B&W Illustrations; 6 x 9 x 2 1/4; xxii, 1022 pages; Sofr cover has brown spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight. Extensively illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. This volume analyzes the causes, diagnoses, and management of the myriad causes of lameness: --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. --Physical therapies; the applicability of rest, medications, and other veterinary procedures. --Hoof conformation and shoeing options. --Joint, bone, muscle, and tendon and ligament problems. --Neurological, dermatological, and developmental orthopedic causes of lameness. --Treatment of specific conditions to the foot, pastern and fetlock, cannon and splint bones, knee, upper foreleg, hock, upper hind leg, and back. Appendix; glossary; index. Oversized, 4#.. New .

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