Category: Vet & Sports Medicine
Splints, the boring part
| October 23, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Vet & Sports Medicine |
While I think this post covered splints well enough, it was suggested that perhaps I should provide some sort of reference that went beyond pre-schoolers, paste, miniature dump trucks, and anti-social suspensories. The splint bones live on either side of the canon bone on all 4 legs and are properly called the metacarpals II […] more
On Splints
| October 18, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Equine Endurance, Most Popular, Vet & Sports Medicine |
9/16/14 Digest
| September 16, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
The day started so promising! I woke up and got up at 5am so that I could see my ponies before school and feed them left over baby carrots from my lunches. To increase the chances that I would get to touch my ponies for the first time in 10 days I made gloriously delicious […] more
Groin Muscle Injuries – How, why, & the function test
| April 9, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
This is the third post in the series about groin muscles, based on a seminar at the AERC convention presented by Dr. Marcello. When we were looking at the specific muscles of the “groin group” and I mentioned that most of the injuries occurred in the tendon portion of the muscle – tendons connect muscle […] more
Uncovering a HUGE training mistake
| March 4, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
I’m going to just lay it out here in the beginning, and then we will talk about why these are HUGE mistakes. 1. My goal for running was fitness. Fitness being defined as being able to do “whatever” on the weekends without too much trouble, with a strong bias towards endurance type events, and reaching […] more
Science of Running
| February 19, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Product Reviews, Vet & Sports Medicine |
One of my favorite running blogs, Science of Running, has published a book by a similar name. Amazon link (Kindle version is $9.99) I’m extremely busy this week with 2 exams on Friday, 1 on Monday, and another cow surgery to prepare for tomorrow afternoon. However, between my angst of managing my time for all […] more
Acid-Base in real life
| February 15, 2014 | Posted by Melinda under Vet & Sports Medicine |
Today I try to apply a real life endurance scenario to the acid base concepts we’ve been discussing. Do you ever wonder how blood work reference ranges are determined? Did you know that it can be problematic to use “regular” intervals on an endurance horse, or an endurance horse during a race? And yes, this […] more
