Soft tissue structures such as muscle, tendons and ligaments are better evaluated by ultrasound exam. Common conditions that affect horses where ultrasonography can be of value are:

• Bowed tendons (deep digital flexor and superficial digital flexor tendonitis)
• Suspensory ligament and check ligament desmitis
• Annular ligament thickening (around the fetlocks)
• Bursitis (elbow)
• Fibrotic myopathies (scar tissue in muscle)
• Any muscle or tendon that has suffered trauma, swelling, scar tissue or hematomas (bruising)

Northwest Equine Veterinary Associates has three state-of-the-art ultrasound machines. For tendon and ligament imaging we use an ultra modern Medison PICO portable ultrasound Spectral, Wave Doppler and Freehand 3D machine and 7 – 10 MHz probe. Images can be stored digitally for owner and veterinary records.

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