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Hindlimb Lameness & Diagnostic Analgesia: When Horses Don't Read the Rule Book
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Equine

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3 Hours - RACE Approval Pending

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English

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Orthopaedics

Sports Medicine

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Equine

Recorded: 17th December 2024                                                 

Panelists:

Elizabeth Davidson   BS, DVM, DACVS, DACVSMR - University of Pennsylvania, USA
David Stack   MVB, MSc, DVMS, FHEA, DECVS, MRCVS - Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital, University of Liverpool, UK
Filip Vandenberghe   DVM, AssocECVDI-LA - Bosdreef, Belgium
                                                  

Moderator:

Annamaria Nagy   PhD, DACVSMR, DECVSMR - University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Hungary

  

PANEL DISCUSSION DESCRIPTION

In most horses, diagnosing the cause of hindlimb lameness is straightforward; lameness is abolished by diagnostic analgesia and diagnostic imaging reveals significant pathology. However, not all horses read the rule book and reaching a conclusive diagnosis in these cases can be a real challenge even to the most experienced clinician. 

Topics that will be debated by an international panel of experts, consisting of lameness clinicians and radiologists, include: 

  • Unexpected response to diagnostic analgesia: lameness that does not improve or gets worse after diagnostic analgesia 
  • How to deal with the dangerous horse? 
  • Approach to multi-limb lameness 
  • The role of advanced diagnostic imaging in diagnosing challenging hindlimb lameness 
  • What shall we do when the diagnostic imaging results don’t match clinical findings and the results of diagnostic analgesia? 
  • When the cause of hindlimb lameness is not in the hindlimb

Elizabeth J. Davidson is an Associate Professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center. Dr. Davidson received her DVM from Michigan State University in 1992. She completed an equine internship at Pilchuck Veterinary Hospital in Snohomish, Washington and surgical residency training at Penn’s New Bolton Center. She is Diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.  Dr. Davidson has special interest and expertise in sport horse lameness, the “hard to diagnose” horse, and those horses affected with neck and back pain.  

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Annamaria is an Associate Professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, where she is leading the orthopaedic diagnostics and diagnostic imaging department. Formerly, Annamaria was a senior clinician at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, UK. Annamaria is a Diplomate of the European and American Colleges of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and holds an RCVS Fellowship Diploma and a PhD for her research on epidemiology of endurance rides. Her special interests lie in diagnosing complicated lameness and poor performance cases and in advanced orthopaedic imaging, including MRI and standing CT. Annamaria has published over 40 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and is regularly invited to speak at national and international meetings. Annamaria is an FEI level 4 endurance official and treating veterinarian and has also worked as a team veterinarian at European and World Championships.

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David is a European Specialist in Equine Surgery and his main area of interest is orthopaedic surgery and lameness. David qualified from University College Dublin in 2003, before travelling to New York where he worked for four years. Subsequently returning to Ireland he established his own equine practice, focusing on imaging and treatment of equine athletes. David then completed his equine surgery residency programme at University College Dublin (UCD) before successfully obtaining a professional doctorate in orthopaedic ultrasound techniques. David moved to the UK in 2016 where he worked as a surgeon in Western Counties Equine Hospital and then Bourton Vale Equine Clinic. David now heads the orthopaedic and imaging service in the Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital, University of Liverpool. His most recent research involves investigating contrast ultrasonography, pelvic CT, and ultrasound-guided sacroiliac and cervical facet injection techniques. He has also published work in the fields of joint surgery and synovial sepsis.

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Filip graduated in 2001 and joined immediately after the orthopaedics department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Ghent University. In 2004 Filip joined the Bosdreef and became partner in 2008. Over 15 years ago Filip pioneered amongst few others in the world, on the clinical use of standing MRI in the horse. In 2011 he was awarded Associate LA ECVDI, the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. The last years Filip has focused as well on the poor performance of the competition horse. Filip is a frequently invited speaker on national and international scientific congresses. FANC license nuclear medicine.

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