{"id":6146,"date":"2013-03-06T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:40:12","slug":"ct-for-equine-limb-fracture-diagnosis-aaep-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/fittness\/ct-for-equine-limb-fracture-diagnosis-aaep-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"CT for Equine Limb Fracture Diagnosis? (AAEP 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fracture can put a horse&#8217;s athletic future&#8211;sometimes even his life&#8211;on the line, and basing treatment on a complete and accurate diagnosis can make a major difference in the horse&#8217;s recovery. A veterinarian in Belgium believes computed tomography (CT) offers a better option for imaging some lower limb fractures than radiography.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2012 American Association of Equine Practitioners convention, held Dec. 1-5 in Anaheim, Calif., Casper Crijns, DVM, presented a study comparing radiographs and CT&#8211;which can provide detailed 3-D images of bone and damage within it&#8211;for diagnosing equine distal limb fractures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/31442\/ct-for-equine-limb-fracture-diagnosis-aaep-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2012 American Association of Equine Practitioners convention, held Dec. 1-5 in Anaheim, Calif., Casper Crijns, DVM, presented a study comparing radiographs and CT&#8211;which can provide detailed 3-D images of bone and damage within it&#8211;for diagnosing equine distal limb fractures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fittness","category-soundness","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8451,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions\/8451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}