Update from Texas

The horse show in Minnesota went well. It was a little slow again, but we didn't have any sick horses which was nice. The weather up there was also a nice change from the Texas heat! The last couple days of the show we did lameness exams and treated a few horses for a couple barns. On our way back down to Texas we stopped in Missouri to work on some horses at two farms. At one of the farms we saw a horse who had had upward fixation of the patella and had to be treated by cutting the medial patellar ligament. We took radiographs of his stifles to make sure he wasn't getting changes in the joint from the procedure and they looked pretty good; the only abnormality was that the patella sat a bit more lateral on the caudal cranial view. At that farm we also treated one horse's navicular bursas because of known changes to the navicular bone. This injection is pretty cool; it is a blind stick and then a radiograph is taken to confirm the location of the needle. I got to shoot the radiographs for the procedure. From there we went to the next farm which was more lameness exams and treatments. We finally made it back down to Texas for the rest of the week. At one of the farms we did a pre-purchase. We also pulled blood to get PRP for the treatment of a superficial digital flexor injury. The tendon was treated ultrasound guided and done at the farm because Dr. Wallis has a PRP machine on the truck. At the next farm we went to we saw a horse who had lacerated his upper eyelid. It had already gotten stitches, but we were asked to look at it. We cleaned it up and Dr. Wallis felt it could use one more stitch so he added one near the medial canthus (the corner of the eye). That ended our week, and now we are headed back to Missouri to look at horses and get them ready for Region 11 next week. That's all for now.

Jenna