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| If a horse was thought to have a pelvic issue would you use MRI or what to diagnose any problem?
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| I'm not sure about all MRI Machines, but a pretty prevelent vet hospital here in California can't do a pelvic MRI because there's no way to get the horse in the machine. If there's other parts of the country that have that capability who knows.
If it's an acute bone injury, bone scan should pick up any remodeling. It can't always pick up some chronic/old issues that aren't actively remodeling though. If it's soft tissue, you can ultrasound the SI ligaments on top or, do a rectal ultrasound to try and find damage but, even then, some damage can be difficult to see.
A good chiropractor should be able to help you as well.
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | I would try a thermal scanner to pin point where the injury is. May be a pulled or bruised muscle.
I had a gelding that was walking weired on a back let....looked suspiciouly like a stifle injury.
Scanned both stifles and nada...scanned up to upper loin, hot spot.
Luckily, it was just severly bruised and a couple adequan injecitions took care of the problem. | |
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Location: Muskogee, OK | barrelracinbroke - 2016-06-09 6:59 PM
I'm not sure about all MRI Machines, but a pretty prevelent vet hospital here in California can't do a pelvic MRI because there's no way to get the horse in the machine. If there's other parts of the country that have that capability who knows.
If it's an acute bone injury, bone scan should pick up any remodeling. It can't always pick up some chronic/old issues that aren't actively remodeling though. If it's soft tissue, you can ultrasound the SI ligaments on top or, do a rectal ultrasound to try and find damage but, even then, some damage can be difficult to see.
A good chiropractor should be able to help you as well.
This is all very good information right here. I don't know of an MRI machine in the country that can scan a pelvis- most can only scan up to the horses hock for hindlimb and carpus for forelimbs- just a matter of physically being able to fit that portion of the horse in the machine. If the horse has been worked up (rectal pelvic exam, radiographs etc.) and nothing is found-- AND you have strong cause to believe it is indeed the pelvis then your next diagnostic step is typically a bone scan. | |
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