NERVE BLOCKING – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF LAMENESS, PART 2

Text: Hayley Kruger Photography: Shutterstock Continued from yesterday's article... Types of blocks The palmar digital nerve block is performed by injecting a small amount of local anaesthetic over the palmar digital nerves on both sides of the pastern, just above the bulbs of the heel and adjacent to the deep digital flexor tendon. Initially, vets believed that…

BylizzieDecember 5, 20190Comments

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ASKHQ: BREAKING INTO DOWNWARD TRANSITIONS

Q: How can you stop a horse from breaking into downward transitions? A: All too often riders experience that feeling of the horse collapsing into the downward transition instead of gracefully changing from one gait to the other while maintaining impulsion. Riders tend to focus so much on the preparation and quality of their upward transitions…

BylizzieOctober 1, 20190Comments

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Winter Hoof Care

As the days become shorter and the nights longer, winter is certainly on its way. South African winters are considered fairly mild compared to other parts of the world, but in some of our regions, it can still get very cold at night! As the weather differs vastly throughout our country, with the Cape regions…

BylizzieJune 21, 20170Comments

NERVE BLOCKING – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF LAMENESS, PART 2

ASKHQ: BREAKING INTO DOWNWARD TRANSITIONS

Winter Hoof Care

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