It’s been a busy couple of days for orthopedics here - a few samplings from this week that illustrate very serious fractures can be routinely repaired with a very realistic expectation of a return to racing. These horses here all did very well thanks in large part to so many incredible improvements in surgical techniques, new types of implants, anesthesia, AND a big shout-out 🙌🏻to intra-operative CT imaging capabilities, which eliminates much of previous guesswork! 🤔
Ohhhh…BUT can he race again?? Well he’s a STANDARDBRED silly 🤪so of course he can!! It’s not everyday you see 8 screws required to repair a little 5x3” pastern (P1) bone for anything other than a retirement situation but Standardbreds are special and really challenge one as a surgeon! This 4-yr-old stallion was repaired in March and rehabbed with us all summer before returning to race training. He never looked back and yesterday won his first start🏆- well done!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Why we do what we do...🪛🔩⚒️this lovely filly had her 1st lifetime start today and was an incredibly game 2nd! Just got nipped at the wire - sound, happy, and thriving🤩 A tremendously patient owner and trainer, lots of luck, and a smart, willing filly with talent = SUCCESS🙌
Penix gets a lot of attention for the deep balls, but this version of the Huskies offense—RPOs, playmakers working in space, Johnson running into light boxes—is a buzzsaw
Well our day was made golden today-by STANLEY!!♥️This little 2-week old Miniature Horse came in to Dr Curtiss for surgery today and we all just went to pieces! Simply scrumptious 😍and so damn huggable - all 31-lbs of him!!
It’s nice to have safety options when repairing vulnerable limb fractures in horses-in a propagating condylar fx we can repair it standing,with just TQ and a local-without the concerns of recovery from anesthesia. Horse walks in,zip-zip🔩🔩🪛,walks out,and never feels a thing 🤗