P3 Equine

18/06/2024

Beautiful image of the following structures- bottom to top

Frog
Digital cushion
Deep digital flexor tendon
Short Pastern- not the navicular
Long pastern.

It’s not the navicular as it a cut made behind it.

Notice the white thread like structures in the digital cushion. There are like a trampoline for supporting the weight of the horse as it weightbears, and helps to allow rebound of the digital cushion as it springs back to its original shape.

08/08/2023

I thought it would be interesting to see what theories are out there on this condition , welcome to DM me if you prefer . This happens to be a 23 year old Friesian . I think I have only seen this three times in a 25 year career where a mature horse starts standing on its hind toes. The last one I wedged seemed to just get worse and just needed bigger and bigger wedges , if we rolled the toe it rocked over. This is a case I have been asked to advise on and I am really keen to hear your theories as to what might cause this and how to manage it.

05/06/2023

watch the video , Incredible

05/06/2023

The University of Pretoria’s Veterinary Sciences team has performed South Africa’s first beak transplant on an injured vulture to enable her to feed again.

06/06/2022

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13/06/2021

Effect of Toe length!

Farriers can influence where the ground reaction force enters the hoof. Horses already do this to an extent with conformation. Very upright horses have a close ground reaction force, which creates small forces in the tendon. Horses with a long sloping pastern have a ground reaction force vector that is longer, with larger forces in the tendon. With a longer toe, the ground reaction force moment arms get bigger, and force on the tendon grows (Figure 2). Calculations show that 1 centimeter of toe length in an average Thoroughbred comes to 50 kilos of force acting on the tendons. (American Farriers Journal)

Figure ( Renate Weller Dr Med.Vet, PhD, MRCVS, FHEA - Professor in Comparative Imaging and Biomechanics - Royal Veterinary College University of London)

25/04/2021