This winter, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority and Oaklawn Park launched a pilot program under which a designated barn would be used for veterinarians to administer any intra-articular ...

Joint injections that contain corticosteroids, such as triamcinolone acetonide, are a common anti-inflammatory in an equine ...

Injecting medication directly into a horse's joint might make some owners wary of complications. But British researchers have recently shown that, when careful aseptic techniques are used, the risks ...

At some point in their lives, most competition horses suffer from joint diseases and related lameness. When prolonged, various types of joint diseases lead to chronic osteoarthritis. At some point in ...

Colloquially referred to as the knee, the equine “carpus” would be more accurately termed the wrist — as this is its equivalent structure in the human body. The horse’s fetlock then relates to our ...

Dramatic but intermittent lameness was the first clue that something was amiss with Sarah Clarke’s young warmblood horse, Hiawatha La Perle (Hamlet). When the four-year-old gelding was presented to us ...