{"id":6517,"date":"2014-03-20T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6517"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:11:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:11:29","slug":"diagnosing-unusual-hock-lameness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/race-horses\/diagnosing-unusual-hock-lameness\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing Unusual Hock Lameness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With six bones articulating in close range and multiple tendons and ligaments controlling extension and flexion, the hock, or the horse equivalent of the human ankle, has many moving and shock-absorbing parts. Add to those the animal\u2019s weight and the fact the joint is almost always in flexion, and you\u2019ve got a recipe for a perplexing number of injuries and, because each hock lameness case is as unique as the horse it beleaguers, it isn\u2019t always easy to define the cause of the lameness, one veterinarian says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/33360\/diagnosing-unusual-hock-lameness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With six bones articulating in close range and multiple tendons and ligaments controlling extension and flexion, the hock, or the horse equivalent of the human ankle, has many moving and shock-absorbing parts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,58,61,16,73,19,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bone-injury","category-equine-diseases","category-joint-problems","category-race-horses","category-soft-tissue-injuries","category-soundness","category-veterinary-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517","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=6517"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6517\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}