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| I am considering having a different vet than I normally use do a lameness locator exam. Any ideas on how reliable it is? Really does help find mystery lameness? And approx cost. Thanks ! |
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Location: New Mexico | Had a vet use it several times. None of my horses have ever really been "mysteries". My vet charges $75. I think it works. |
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| It does work and fills in the gaps in human eyes. Using it and blocking, it's easier to trace things like suspensory injuries that are hard to see. |
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Location: Wherever the Army sends my husband | classicpotatochip - 2016-03-08 1:16 PM "It does work and fills in the gaps in human eyes. Using it and blocking, it's easier to trace things like suspensory injuries that are hard to see."Yes, this why I hauled to UT even though I work at a clinic. My clinic doesn't have one and visually I couldn't see anything wrong with my mare. She felt off under saddle and knew something was wrong. Even the vets at UT didn't visually see anything but the lameness locator picked up lameness in the hind left. A couple of nerve blocks and we found her suspensory ligament was the culprit.
Edited by KD Running Horses 2016-03-09 6:59 AM
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Location: Wherever Riley is | I am a firm beliver in it but I do think its important to use a vet that does take his time and do a good job with it. I wasted THOUSANDS with several of the best vets in my area three years ago and every one of them totally missed what the injury was. It wasnt until using the lameness locator that the issue was pinpointed which happened to be a torn suspensory. All of the previous diagnosis were not even remotely close. Now anytime I go, I use the locator as a diagnotic tool.
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Location: southeast Texas | After several vets saying horse is doing good, this is after a lameness exam. I knew something wasn't quit right. Went to lameness locator vet. Thru the lameness locator it told you he was putting more weight on his front left hoof. Compensating for something in the hind end. Did two different blocks and pinpointed stifles.
This round of stifle injections, it's the best he has ever felt. Smooth soft lead departures. Not trot trot trot then take a lead.
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| I have had great luck with using it in the past, but it is just like any other tool and will depend on the vets knowledge. I seen on here that a few people did not benefit from it but I think that the success of it will depend on what vet you go to. Thankfully I can use the vet who developed it when I feel the need to use it. I believe for the inital lameness exam it was $150-$200, I can't remember for sure, and when I went back for a check up it was less than $75 to use it again on the same horse.
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| Thanks everyone! I had a long conversation with my lameness vet about it. SHe says its great for vets who are not good at detecting lameness very well. At the national AAEP conference they showed research that in clinical trials HUMAN vets still found lameness issues better than did the locator. BUT those vets were lameness experts such as herself. For now I am just going to rely on her knowledge. Thanks! |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | FLITASTIC - 2016-03-09 10:34 AM Thanks everyone! I had a long conversation with my lameness vet about it. SHe says its great for vets who are not good at detecting lameness very well. At the national AAEP conference they showed research that in clinical trials HUMAN vets still found lameness issues better than did the locator. BUT those vets were lameness experts such as herself. For now I am just going to rely on her knowledge. Thanks!
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It can be a good tool to a vet that doesn't have experience or ability to locate the lameness.
I have never seen one used where you have clinic staffed with expereinced, qualified Dr. Vets
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| 1DSoon - 2016-03-09 7:54 AM
FLITASTIC - 2016-03-09 10:34 AM Thanks everyone! I had a long conversation with my lameness vet about it. SHe says its great for vets who are not good at detecting lameness very well. At the national AAEP conference they showed research that in clinical trials HUMAN vets still found lameness issues better than did the locator. BUT those vets were lameness experts such as herself. For now I am just going to rely on her knowledge. Thanks!
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It can be a good tool to a vet that doesn't have experience or ability to locate the lameness.
I have never seen one used where you have clinic staffed with expereinced, qualified Dr. Vets
Exactly... lol I asked her why she didn't have one " Just in case" she couldn't find an issue. lol She is very confident and her response was " So far I have not had a case I couldnt find the problem and I consider myself a good lameness locator myself" She worked for years and years at the track and all she did was lameness day in and day out under the direction of some of the best veteran vets out there. |
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| I am fortunate to work with the vet who invented it. Of the 6 horses I have taken to him to use it, it worked on 5. The one horse it showed a right front and it was a hind limb. But I will say I was having a hard time finding an issue on my older horse and this thing found it when 4 different vets could not. Made me a believer. |
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Location: United States | I worked closely with a boarded equine sports medicine doctor for 1 year and I ran the EL2 well over 200 times. It NEVER let the Doctor down, ever. With that being said, he is by far the best lameness vet I know and had massive experience even before the EL2. The EL2 offers something the eye cants see, and that is percentage of improvement from blocks. We let the carbocain set for 5 minutes, and if the results improved 50%, BINGO. We didn't jack around and diagnosis was spot on. It was also fascinating to see how the lameness would shift from one leg to the next with blocking, and the nice things about the EL2 is it was a visual to the owner and everyone had confidence when choosing the next step of treatment. The data was saved and when we did follow ups we could compare. When a horse in the practice was sold, we had data (with permissions) to send to the buyer. I could go on and on. Electronic Lameness Locators are the way to go BUT must also have a knowledgeable vet behind them. |
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Location: Kansas | I used it on my gray horse a couple years ago, and felt it was worth the money. He had several things hurting at the same time and so we were not able to pinpoint everything in one visit to the local racetrack vet. I think my bill was in the $700-800 range and that was with 3 blocks and 3 coffin joint injections. We spent something like 3 hours at the vet clinic but I finally got answers, and would do it again if I had another mystery that closer vets couldn't solve. |
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