Radiographs

I for one wouldlike to see folks and vets post picts of radiographs and then let the members list what they see.
Set a time peroiod and then have the person describe what is going on in the film and see how many folks were able to read it correctly or at least spot some of what was going on.
Not only would it be interesting but it would be a class online for all of us who need help deciphering rads.

my 2 cents worth

I agree. I think it would help me to improve .

I'll start off with a easy one .

I think I could use that as a coat rack.

LOL, Maybe I should of started with an easier radiograph for everyone to look at .

When I see it you know it's pretty easy!

It might help if you added some history and symptoms. This one has several suspicious anomalies on the medial side.

Don't need any the pic speaks for it self

Here's one from a while back.
Got a call from someone who had just moved to the area and asked if I would take her on. One of her horses, chunky, coloured cob, was slightly lame, so she had had the vet to him who had made some recommendations.
Any suggestions?

That makes two of us, Eric.

I think there's some calcification on that wing. Or is it under the navicular bone ? Any other views ?

Gary, Broken back axis and needed a wedge?

Gary I would start with a trim first. looks like you had pleny to work with.

OK here goes, What I see is the toe is driving everything back. It is causing stress on the navicular area and at the top of P-3 . Looks like sight calxification in both areas.
I would bring the heels back and bevel the toe. I think that alone would relieve the stress.
I might even try a shoe Ron Alders like's, a banana shoe and let the horse find his own point of comfort until it better.

my 2 cents worth

I have already " trimmed" some hooves in the manner of a banana shoe and had great results in correcting



my 2 cents worth

What were the vet recommendation's?

Yeah I didn't pay attention to that part. I can see now where it appears there is plenty of foot to fix that.

It looks like there's a good 20 mm to take off.

Vet diagnosed ringbone, injected the coffin joint with cortisone and recommended taking a couple of mm off the 'outside' (I don't have copies of the frontal views, but they did show a slight imbalance).
I asked if the vet mentioned hoof/pastern angle or trimming the toe and the owner said not.
Here's the xray again alongside the other foot. To me there seems to be a degree of subluxation in the coffin joint. But whatever, the toe length needed to be redressed.



This is how he looks now:


and I tried superimposing them using points of reference such as bulbs of heel and coronary band for the owner to show how things had changed, as I couldn't persuade her to pay for more xrays.

The most interesting thing for me about this case was that when I first saw him, he didn't look too bad, but he had really long feathers, you couldn't see his feet at all and it was difficult to see a hoof/pastern axis. When his feathers were clipped off his hpa was quite shocking. Live and learn.

I guess the farrier must trim the horse firstly,and the vet will take the rads after.In this way the corrections of the trim before the shoeinf could be minimal. The vet left it a half done.