{"id":6881,"date":"2016-02-08T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:47:26","slug":"is-ultrasound-useful-for-diagnosing-hind-limb-psd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/veterinary-medicine\/is-ultrasound-useful-for-diagnosing-hind-limb-psd\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ultrasound Useful for Diagnosing Hind-Limb PSD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hind-limb proximal suspensory desmopathy is as challenging to treat as it is to say. But researchers are making progress in determining which methods are most effective for diagnosing the condition, which is commonly known as PSD.<\/p>\n<p>Horses with PSD have inflammation and tissue damage in the upper part of the suspensory ligament, a structure that connects to the top back of the cannon bone, divides into two branches which attach to the proximal sesamoid bones, and lies under the superficial and deep digital flexor tendons and the check ligament.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/37033\/is-ultrasound-useful-for-diagnosing-hind-limb-psd?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional treatment approaches generally involve an extended, expensive period of confinement or inactivity. Further, researchers have determined that the prognosis for hind-limb PSD following conservative therapy (which generally consists of rest, with or without shockwave therapy and treatment with drugs such as corticosteroids) alone is poor, with only 14% of horses resuming full work without lameness for more than a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,31],"tags":[195,196,198,197,191,116,144,199,194,192,193],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-cannon-bone","tag-corticosteroids","tag-desmoplasty","tag-fasciotomy","tag-hind-limb","tag-hind-tendon","tag-inflammation","tag-injury","tag-psd","tag-suspensory","tag-ultrasound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}