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Garrard's Equine Veterinary Victoria, Melton (2025)

Garrard's Equine Veterinary Practice Victoria - Servicing Melton, Bacchus Marsh, Gisborne and surrounding areas, with regular visits to Ballarat, Kilmore, Kyneton and Geelong

30/07/2024

Wounds that pe*****te into the digital tendon sheath can be life threatening.

Not only did this little lady cut into her digital tendon sheath, she cut into the superficial digital flexor tendon, which on its own can be career ending.

The odds were not in her favour. The referral surgeon said if she didn’t go to surgery, she would need to be put to sleep, and even with surgery, her chances of making a recovery for an athletic career were poor.

The trainer decided to treat the mare conservatively with box rest, bandaging and some antibiotics and anti inflammatory’s, but was completely aware that she may not make a racehorse, let alone survive this type of injury.

It’s just amazing what a bit of time (and some Manuka honey!!) can do. The pic on the left is the injury at one of its earlier bandage changes, and the pic on the right is from today, six months post injury and back at the trials ready to race again.

Sometimes miracles do happen, and this is one very lucky little lady that the trainer took a chance on her ☺️

08/04/2024

𝙐𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨

Normally when we reach for the ultrasound in equine practice, we are scanning a tendon or ligament. But ultrasounds are great for any soft tissue imaging, whether that be assessing the lungs, looking at the abdominal organs, scanning the reproductive tract or in this case, imaging lesions in the eye.

The owner had noticed a mass in the eye of the horse (red arrow). The main differential diagnoses were a tumour (melanoma) or a corpora nigra cyst (a cyst from the brown part of the iris).

On ultrasound a tumour would appear as a solid mass (a solid white circle), whereas a cyst would appear like a fluid filled ball (white outline with a black inside).

The images showed this to be a cyst (blue arrows).

Corpora nigra cysts are not painful and slow growing, but the can get large enough to interfere with vision, causing the horse to be spooky.

Consultation with a veterinary ophthalmologist gave the option of having laser surgery to remove the cyst.

04/09/2023

❓❓❓Can anyone see what is wrong with this little girl?❓❓❓

First correct answer wins a bag of Smoochies for their ponies.

Edit: Donna Aspin was the first correct guess. There is swelling of the sinuses (the maxillary sinuses) under the left eye, the right of the picture. The red arrows point out the swelling.

The filly had had a left sided nasal discharge for several weeks. Endoscopy revealed that the discharge was coming from the sinuses and not the respiratory tract. It was suspected she may have a tooth root abscess, however radiographs revealed a mass in the sinus. Biopsy/sampling is being performed this week.

28/08/2023

💡💡💡What you can’t see you can’t diagnose, and what you can’t diagnose you can’t treat💡💡💡

This pic highlights the importance of a sedated dental exam with a light and mirror.

This little guy had some minor swelling of the left cheek. Everything else seemed to be ok with him, but a couple of days before his dental appointment, he had started to go off his feed a bit, so his owners thought he might have stomach ulcers.

He has an ulcer for sure, but not in his stomach. The arrow is pointing out the large painful ulcer this guy had developed at the back of his mouth due to a sharp point on the back of his bottom left molar.

We reduced the sharp point on the molar and floated the rest of his teeth.

This just goes to show how important it is to have proper examination of the teeth done by a dental vet.

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Joint injections are a big part of performance horse practice. The tarsometatarsal joint would be one of the more common joints I inject in my patients

Equinosis Pt2 : Data collection and analysis. During the trot up the sensors are collecting changes in vertical velocity and side to side movement in real time. This data is analysed through the Equinosis algorithm, which then shows where the changes in gait are, so I know where to go start looking for issues. We can do nerve blocks and/or flexion tests with the sensors on and compare them to the previous trot ups for more accurate diagnosis.

I love using the Equinosis as part of my lameness work ups. It’s great for complicated, multi limb lamenesses, subtle lamenesses (it can detect differences in gait to within 3mm!!), or for tracking a horse through its work so we can pick up problems early.

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