{"id":6414,"date":"2013-11-15T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:52:16","slug":"do-horses-with-osteochondral-lesions-always-need-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/fittness\/do-horses-with-osteochondral-lesions-always-need-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Horses with Osteochondral Lesions Always Need Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Osteochondral lesions that show up on young horses’ radiographs might appear worrisome, but the veterinarian behind a recent research review concluded that surgery isn\u2019t always necessary, or even recommended. And in many cases the worry isn\u2019t necessary either.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see far too many situations of positive radiographs meaning a flunked prepurchase exam in a sound horse,\u201d said C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, Dipl. ACVSMR, director of the Orthopaedic Research Center at Colorado State University. \u201cOsteochondrosis defects are not the biggest thing we have to worry about in young horses.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Osteochondral lesions that show up on young horses’ radiographs might appear worrisome, but the veterinarian behind a recent research review concluded that surgery isn\u2019t always necessary, or even recommended. And in many cases the worry isn\u2019t necessary either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,58,5,64,61,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodhorse","category-equine-diseases","category-fittness","category-hoof-care","category-joint-problems","category-soundness","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","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=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8362,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions\/8362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}