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Prevention and screening of metacarpal condylar injuries in racing Thoroughbreds

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Peloso J.G.
In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 15, 2018
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The fetlock joint is the most common site of musculoskeletal disease that results in euthanasia of Thoroughbred racehorses worldwide [1,2]. A 15-year summary of Thoroughbred racehorses submitted to a US necropsy programme revealed that 57% of all submissions involved the fetlock joint [3]. Recently it was identified that 55% of horse spills injure the jockey [4]. When the fatal injury rate is 1.9 horses per 1000 starts, 1000 starts are attained when 10 horses per race compete in 10 races per day. In this hypothetical example, two horses would be destroyed and one human injured every 10 days, demonstrating the urgent need to develop additional surveillance strategies for the fetlock ...

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Peloso, J. G. (2020) “Prevention and screening of metacarpal condylar injuries in racing Thoroughbreds”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-birmingham-2018/prevention-and-screening-of-metacarpal-condylar-injuries-racing-thoroughbreds (Accessed: 12 September 2024).

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Equine Medical Center of Ocala, 7107 W Hwy 326, Ocala, Florida 34482, USA.

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