Dr. Melissa King presents a comprehensive discussion on approaches to cervical dysfunction and rehabilitation, focusing on both equine and human applications. She highlights the integration of evidence-based techniques for addressing axial skeletal pain and dysfunction, emphasizing parallels between equine and human therapy. The session explores diagnostic challenges, therapeutic modalities, and rehabilitation protocols aimed at standardizing treatment and improving outcomes.
Key highlights include:
- Analysis of the causes and effects of cervical pain, including chronic overuse injuries.
- Examination of human studies on neck pain to inform equine therapy, noting similarities in diagnostic difficulties and muscle impairments.
- Use of advanced rehabilitation techniques such as cryotherapy, heat therapy, TENS, PMF, laser therapy, and shockwave therapy to manage pain and improve function.
- Introduction of therapeutic exercises, including dynamic mobilization, proprioceptive stimulation, and underwater treadmill training, to enhance stability, flexibility, and strength.
- Discussion of innovative tools and strategies like balance pads and resistance bands to replicate human rehabilitation methods for horses.
- Emphasis on breaking the pain cycle and progressively increasing exercise intensity while tailoring protocols to individual needs.
Dr. King’s presentation is a creative, evidence-driven approach to rehabilitation, leveraging insights from human physiotherapy to advance equine care.
General
- Selection of sites for intramuscular injections in the neck of the horse (PDF)
- C6 Anomaly Dyson 2024 (PDF)
- Equine Veterinary Education – 2020 – Crijns – Evaluation of cervical radiographs in Dutch Warmblood horses using a novel (PDF)
- Equine Veterinary Journal – 2022 – Schulze – Dynamic three‐dimensional computed tomographic imaging facilitates evaluation (PDF)
- Phenotypes Dyson 2024 (PDF)
- Cervical disc width is a reliable parameter and consistent in young growing Dutch Warmblood horses (PDF)
Transverse Foramen
- Overview (PDF)
- Metaphyeal and Diaphyseal Dysplasia of the Third Cervical Vertebra Secondary to Physeal Necrosis in a Quarter Horse Foal (PDF)
- Readiness of Equine Basilar Artery (PDF)
- A study of the anatomical variations of the carotid arterial tree in Equidae (PDF)
- Anat Histol Embryol – 2017 – Akbari – The Branching Pattern of the Brachiocephalic Trunk in the Donkey Equus asinus (PDF)
- Anat Histol Embryol – June 1979 – Vitums – Development of the Equine Venous Sinuses of the Dura Mater (PDF)
- Anatomic Radiographic and Physiologic Co (PDF)
- Equine Veterinary Education – 2010 – Griffin – Value of ventrodorsal radiographic views for diagnosis of transverse (PDF)
- Equine Veterinary Journal – 2010 – GOLLOB – Ultrasonographic investigation of the atlanto‐occipital articulation (PDF)
- J of Comparative Neurology – 1 February 1974 – Gillilan – Blood supply to brains of ungulates with and without a rete (PDF)
- Can the transverse foramen/vertebral artery ratio of double transverse foramen subjects be a risk for vertebrobasilar transient ischemic attacks? (PDF)
- Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series A – 2004 – Sebastian – Fibrocartilaginous Embolic Myelopathy in a Horse (PDF)
- Anatomical Description of Internal Vertebral Venous Plexus in Horses (PDF)
- Veterinary Surgery – 2015 – Khairuddin – Angiographic Variation of the Internal Carotid Artery and its Branches in Horses (PDF)
- Veterinary Surgery – November 1993 – FREEMAN – Unusual Internal Carotid Artery Branching That Prevented Arterial Occlusion (PDF)
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