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ThermScan Equine Thermal Imaging (Scotland) At ThermScan we use thermal imaging to help you help your horse.
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The service we provide helps identify signs of injury or disease and the results we deliver are a combination of the quality of our staff, the equipment we use and our standardised imaging protocols. If you have any questions or would like to book an appointment for scan please get in touch.

06/04/2024
02/11/2023

DIPS AND INDENTATIONS IN HORSES BACKS… NOT NORMAL! ❌

If you can see where your saddle sits on your horses back by the indents in their muscles, something is WRONG.

Compressed, atrophied muscles are in this state because of increased pressure to the degree of neurological pathology.

Indentations such as these are not correlated to a horse simply not working over their back, or a horse needing to develop topline due to weakness… this is a pathology. No amount of training, riding, muscle building supplements and feed is going to make this area pop back up.

Speak with your saddler, physiotherapist and vet to get to the bottom of these areas of muscular wastage.

Probably one of my most brutal posts, but I feel this really has to be drawn attention to as I see this so often in varying degrees where this is not given the attention it deserves. 😖

27/10/2023

Delighted we could help Julie and her boy!

22/10/2023

Kissing spine (overriding dorsal spinous processes).

I really wanted to share this case with you from this week.
The horse presented with a reluctance to canter under saddle and was continuously going disunited behind on the lunge and when ridden.

Back x-rays had been carried out two years previous to this and the previous vets weren’t too concerned - they were close, but many horses processes are.

However, fast forward to today, and the radiographs show a much more advanced picture. There is sclerosis (whitening) and lucency (black areas), where the bones have been rubbing away on each other. Although I often say that there are many horses working just fine with some evidence of kissing spine, this horse was clearly unhappy and most likely
has sacroiliac pain as a consequence of this degeneration. We injected local anaesthetic around these processes to see how relevant the back was to his comfort levels. Although he still had a tendency to go disunited, he seemed much happier to move forward in the canter, with more movement in his back and no more pain grunting.

I have imaged hundreds of backs, with many close processes, but how often do we re-x-ray further down the line to see if and how quickly the disease process has progressed?

From this case, I strongly recommend that if any horses have been diagnosed with ‘close’, but not necessarily ‘active’ kissing spine, then we should always keep a very close eye on it in the future.

Thank you so much to this owner for allowing us to share and I will keep you updated on how this sweet boy gets on ❤️💕❤️

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24/09/2023

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