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First Aid for Lameness in HorsesIntroduction
Your horse has just come up lame. While you go through this assesment / treatment / referral paradigm best would be to allow the horse to rest standing still, particularly if he is non-weight bearing on a leg. If he can walk without too much difficulty, he can be put in a stall.
Lameness is defined as a change in gait or way of going in a horse and is a common event. It is not a disease but a symptom of one (or rarely a combination) of the following diseases:
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