Veterinary Sportscience Center

In The Spotlight

• International Veterinary Public Health Consortium: Academic community focuses on collaboration and presentation of topics for advocacy initiatives and country by country analysis, in support of optimization of the global  veterinary public health infrastructure. World Veterinary Association News, 11 October 2004.
• Expanding Human to Veterinary Biomechanics Applications: In 1994, after learning about the application of the procedure in a cervical entrapment neurapathy case on the wife of a physician at Yale Medical School, a veterinarian in Northern Nevada requested our help with a spinal condition involving a 12 year old basset hound. The sucess of this case in a quadruped application opened the door for work on hundreds of sporthorses in dressage,hunter-jumper and western training programs.
• National Economic Cost of Equine Lameness, Colic and Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) in the United States: USDA, APHIS, October 2001

Merck Veterinary Manuel
Lameness In Horses
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Disorders of the Foot  Bone Cyst in Pedal Bone  Bruised Sole and Corns  Canker  Contracted Heels  Fracture of Navicular Bone  Fracture of Pedal Bone  Keratoma  Laminitis  Navicular Disease  Pedal Osteitis  Puncture Wounds of the Foot  Pyramidal Disease  Quittor  Sandcrack  Scratches  Seedy Toe  Sheared Heels  Sidebone  Thrush  Disorders of the Fetlock and Pastern   Fracture of Phalanges and Proximal Sesamoids  Osselets  Ringbone  Sesamoiditis  Villonodular Synovitis  Windgalls  Disorders of the Carpus   Bucked Shins  Carpal Hygroma  Carpitis  Fracture of the Carpal Bones  Fractures of the Small Metacarpal and Metatarsal (Splint) Bones  Fracture of the Third Metacarpal (Cannon) Bone  Splints  Suspensory Desmitis Disorders of the Shoulder and Elbow  Arthritis of the Shoulder Joint  Bicipital Bursitis  Fractures of the Elbow  Fractures of the Shoulder  Sweeney

Disorders of the Tarsus   Overview  Bog Spavin  Bone Spavin  Curb  Displacement of Superficial Flexor Tendon from the Point of the Hock  Fracture of the Tarsus  Hindlimb Tendon Ruptures  Rupture of the Peroneus Tertius Muscle  Stringhalt  Thoroughpin  Disorders of the Stifle   Fracture of the Stifle  Gonitis  Patellar Luxation  Subchondral Bone Cyst  Disorders of the Hip  Coxitis  Dislocation of the Hip  Pelvic Fracture  Trochanteric Bursitis  Disorders of the Back   Fractures  Muscle and Ligament Strain  Ossifying Spondylosis  Overriding of the Dorsal Spinous Processes  Sacroiliac Injury  Developmental Orthopedic Disease  Overview  Osteochondrosis  Physitis  Flexion Deformities

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Equine Sports Medicine

• American Association of Equine Practitioners
• The Equine Research Centre
• University of Kentucky Equine Research Foundation
• The Laminitis Page
• Large Animal Radiology: University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School
• TUSVM Equine Sports Medicine