The intra-op rads on the next series.

Wow Lane, great looking work again.
As you fixed it that way, I expect the joint to work as it should once healed, right? Do they make knee parts that could be replaced for horses as they do on us? Sure is swelled up, and in several pieces.

Two petty questions: What's those three lines to the L side in the second xray blood maybe? Do you cut those plates as needed, or are they a standard part?

Thanks for sharing. How's the first mare doing by now?

George

A 20 year old mare with a seriously crooked leg caused by severe carpal arthritis.



Pre-op X-ray.



After we sawed out a section of her knee.





And...plated it back together.

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Originally posted by georgeld:
Wow Lane, great looking work again.
As you fixed it that way, I expect the joint to work as it should once healed, right? Do they make knee parts that could be replaced for horses as they do on us? Sure is swelled up, and in several pieces.

Two petty questions: What's those three lines to the L side in the second xray blood maybe? Do you cut those plates as needed, or are they a standard part?

Thanks for sharing. How's the first mare doing by now?

George

The plates are standard length.

That is either saline or blood on the pic...digital radaiograpy pics up everything.

The first mare is doing great.

Thank you for the report and further pics.
Mare looks good for her age. Hope she gets over that bad knee so she can live a decent life another five or so yrs.

Appreciate the education Lane, been around a bunch of horses but, only one broken leg and a .22 took care of that. Most problems we've had have been wire cuts as discussed awhile back and lightning has nailed several. One fell off a 60' cliff yrs ago. Not a whole lot can be done in those cases.

Wish you well with your work fixing them up where you can.

George

This mare is a brood mare and can produce embryos for 5 more years.

She generally produces at least 2 per year. The embryos are worth $20K apiece.

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The embryos are worth $20K apiece.

Hope you get one for a tip.
Amazing procedure again.

Doc, that's amazing!

Lane:
Would you be kind enough to post an xray of a horses heart and lungs for us to look at?

Sure would appreciate it.
Thanks much,
George

Just incredible work there Lane. Thank you for sharing it with us.

While not along that line, and I really don't want it either lol, we had to have 2 teeth out of my daughters horse that she uses in English jumping. We got one of them the old fashioned way and even though it looked ok enough from the outside, we saw there was good reason to get those 2 out. Of course the other one wouldn't come out.

So we called in the horse dental specialist from Austin. The new methods and tools did the job. But it sure wasn't as easy as they had said. On them or on the horse. Dang man I felt bad for the horse.

It all came out good. But beings I had to do the tough work of taking him to the dentist, when the horse sees me he wants to leave right away. Lol .

Lane,
How do you handle Laminitas, I know so many horses that have been worked on such as you have shown us, but back then the fact that they could not survive the weight on only 3 legs was the killer and I recall some very famous race horses that had to be put down after some months after surgery..My question is has equine surgery overcome that in the last x number of years.

I think I will be coming to my sisters ranch this summer, and if so I would love to stop by and get a tour of your facility and I'll buy lunch or supper. We could shoot some hogs with your double rifle at her ranch if your so inclined.
Ray