The Equine Lameness Center

11/13/2024

🌟Acute Severe Lameness 🌟

Check out this radiograph!

Do you see the black circle ⚫️ adjacent to the coffin bone?! This is a nice image to find when your horse has a severe, acute, lameness in 1 limb.

Can you guess what this patient had?

11/08/2024

🌟Quiz Time 🌟

Do you know which nerve is inflamed or damaged?

11/05/2024

🌟 Joint Injection Questions 🌟

How long are your horse’s joint injections lasting?

Have you tried Noltrex to extend the time in between them?

10/25/2024

💥💥 Huge congratulations to our sponsored rider Wesley Thorp Professional Team Roper and to his talented partner T Wade! These guys make it look so easy on these fantastic horses!

10/21/2024

🌟Acute Lameness 🌟

This patient was found acutely lame, the owner administered an NSAID and made an appointment.

Upon examination, this patient was a grade 4/5 lame, had an increased digital pulse and heat appreciated between the heel bulbs.

What do you think is going on? See pic 📸

Radiographs and a diagnostic block were offered.

A few days later, this patient became significantly more sound and comfortable.

This patient is expected to make a full recovery.

10/17/2024

🌟 Happy Vet Tech Week 🌟

Today’s spotlight is on Andrea!

Caring for horses to kids, she rolls with whatever walks through our clinic! We are incredibly fortunate to have Andrea at TEqLC, we can always count on her to bring positive energy to our work family ❤️. If you see her this week make sure you thank her!

10/06/2024

🌟Be the Person You Once Needed 🌟

Yesterday, Dr. Hamilton joined a few of her colleagues in a panel discussion for veterinary students! Veterinarians encouraging and teaching (V.E.T.) hosted “Pathways To Success,” where students from 5 different veterinary schools had the opportunity to ask questions about pursuing a career as an equine practitioner.

This event was an incredible opportunity for students to get real advice from people in the industry with diverse backgrounds. A special thank you to everyone involved who put this event on, it’s important for the future of our industry ❤️.

At this time, equine veterinarians are getting harder to come by, and it is imperative to reinforce you can have student loans, you can pay them off, you can start your own practice, have a family and be super happy with equine practice.

09/30/2024

We love sponsoring the breakaway roping at the CCPRCA rodeo but we also love to help support the amazing flag team! These women put in hours every night at the performances in addition to attending the parade!

We want to a say a special thank you to our clients & friends, without your business we would not be able to donate to these events and groups!

We appreciate each one of you and we look forward to being able to sponsor more events in the future ❤️.

The 2024 Cowboy Capital Pro Rodeo is officially over! There will be a ton of pictures that we will be posting after we all recover a little, but I wanted to give a special thanks to Jessica Hamilton with the Equine Lameness Center. Year after year Jessica not only is there for our horses, but she makes sure that all of our girls are taken care of!

Only 363 more days until our 2025 rodeo!😁

09/28/2024

🌟 Stephenville PRCA Rodeo 🌟

It’s rodeo time!!!!

TEqLC is proud to be the Breakaway Roping Sponsor for rodeo 🔥 and the official veterinarian for Friday & Saturday’s Performance!

Thankful for the beautiful ladies of the and especially for carrying TEqLC’s flag!

Let’s Rodeo!

09/26/2024

🌟 Name This Condition 🌟

6 months ago this patient had an accident involving falling on the left shoulder.

Immediately after getting up this patient had instability of the shoulder.

(Advanced Quiz Below) ⬇️

This patient has damaged the _________ nerve.

This patient had complete atrophy of the ________ and __________ muscles within 7 days.

The pic is 6 months from injury. This patient is sound and will go back to work. The muscles may never return back to normal but time will tell.

Can you name the condition described above?

Bonus: This patient has had multiple adjustments and acupuncture after radiographs and ultrasound of course 🙂.

09/17/2024

🌟Name This Condition 🌟

The soft, mobile, swollen area is located caudal to the elbow.

The swelling is due to trauma (front shoes hitting the elbow when lying down or lack of adequate bedding, etc..).

Treatment is varied.

Sometimes treatment can be as simple as removing front shoes, adding more bedding, an injection to remove the fluid, injecting steroids, having the horse wear a boot or even surgery.

📸 Check it out 👀 this is what we removed before injecting this area! Approximately 30mls of fluid was removed!

Can you name this condition?

09/10/2024

🌟 Quiz Time 🌟

What part of the Equine Spine is pictured ⬇️ ?

A. Cervical
B. Thoracic
C. Lumbar
D. Coccygeal

Bonus: normal or abnormal radiographic findings?

Answers will be posted later in comments 🙂

09/02/2024

🌟 Saying Goodbye 🌟

Euthanasia Means “Good Death.”

Euthanasia is the act of ending an animals life painlessly and mercifully.

Euthanasia may mean good death but it can feel terrible for the individual having to make the decision for the animal.

It’s an easy process most of the time. In our practice, anesthesia is Induced then the euthanasia solution is administered. It’s quick, easy and truly a beautiful gift you can give your animal when the time is right.

What’s not easy are the feelings of extreme guilt which can come later. Did I make the right decision? Could something have been done differently? Is there any other option?

These questions may arise and it’s best to know you are making the best decision for your animal and for you.

A few guidelines I use are:
1. Is the animal able to eat/drink on their own?
2. Is the animal able to urinate and defecate with out assistance?
3. Is the animal chronically lame and/or in pain?
4. Does the animal have a disease or condition that is incurable?
5. Is the animal generally happy?

Euthanasia may mean “Good Death,” but it also needs to feel like a “Good Death.”

Celebrate the animal and try to see how much your life was improved by loving something that depended on you. My heart breaks for any person having to have this internal debate. Making a choice for your animal is hard but allowing your animal to have a “good death,” is a beautiful gift.

📸 Before we induce anesthesia for euthanasia we try to offer a last meal or feed extra treats 🤍. It’s important to us to show kindness to the animal we are helping.

This job is hard and coming back to an empty stall over a horse we treated and prayed for is also hard but sometimes doing the hard thing is what is best for the animal.

Sending 🤍 to anyone who has had to make this decision.