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By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
Nov 20, 2017
Would you knowingly ride a lame horse? Few people would, yet in a recent study, scientists found that nearly three-fourths of study horses had significant motion asymmetry, confirmed by motion analysis. Every one of those horses was being ridden regularly. And according to their owners, they were sound.
“It’s important to educate riders and trainers in visual lameness assessment to detect changes in their horses´ motion symmetry (early),” said Marie Rhodin, PhD, of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in Uppsala...
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http://www.thehorse.com/articles/39919/are-you-riding-a-lame-horse?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=sports-medicine&utm_campaign=11-26-2017
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