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Rounds With Doc T – “Breakdown Of Connective Tissue In Horses” 2022 April 25th
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Rounds With Doc T – “Breakdown Of Connective Tissue In Horses” 2022 April 25th
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The journey of how to feed horses correctly started with the epidemic of suspensory ligament disease. The suspensory ligaments are part of the group of tissues called the connective tissues. The dictionary describes this as tissue that connects, supports, binds, or separates other tissues or organs, typically having relatively few cells embedded in an amorphous matrix, often with collagen or other fibers, and including cartilaginous, fatty, and elastic tissues (Apple’s dictionary). The dictionary further describes collagen as the main structural protein found in skin and other connective tissues.
Let’s dig deeper with the description of collagen from Wikipedia. Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular matrix found in the body’s various connective tissues. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abundant protein in mammals, making up from 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content. Collagen consists of amino acids bound together to form a triple helix of elongated fibril known as a collagen helix. It is mostly found in connective tissue such as cartilage, bones, tendons, ligaments, and skin. Depending upon the degree of mineralization, collagen tissues may be rigid or compliant or have a gradient from rigid to compliant. Collagen is also abundant in corneas, blood vessels, the gut, intervertebral discs, and the dentin of teeth. In muscle tissue, it serves as a major component of the endomysium. Collagen constitutes one to two percent of muscle tissue and accounts for 6% of the weight of strong, tendinous muscles. The fibroblast is the most common cell that creates collagen.
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The PDF of the slide show for the webinar. Pring and take notes if you want to.
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Can’t connect to the Zoom presentation for some reason. It isn’t recognizing my email/passcode. Will catch the replay.
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We are changing a setting for future meetings that should avoid this problem with Zoom. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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I am experiencing the same problem as Karen. Zoom will not let me connect to the discussion….
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We are changing a setting for future meetings that should avoid this problem with Zoom. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Thank you!!
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The discussion of Healing tendons – Ultra Sound and MRI…..vs hands and stimulation of connective tissue/fascia.
My horse and her friend both tore their tendons on the same day, same incident…. The Herd run ended up with entire herd breaking out of their camp and going for a run. Two pulled up lame, both with seriously badly torn tendon SFT.
Apart from initial pain pain and AI meds prescribed by vet 24 hrs on, and being told to box rest, they both were living out horses and could not be given box rest. They were given limited movement, ie in a small camp but still enough for them to walk, even trot and one even tried up canter. Used a homeopathic AI and did fascia relief body work wherever needed on their body and within 3 months the one was starting short in hand walks, the other 4 months in hand walks. Can’t quite remember the time periods fully but by 6 and 7 months both were back in light work and today you can barely see that the tendons were even slightly damaged let alone so bad that the vet did not believe the one horse would ever be in work again. They were not on high protein at the time but I do believe their success is attributed to being able to move so it kept the tendon moving and allow the flexibility to be retained while healing, and the BW helped the rest of the body cope with the compensation that naturally occurs with injury and helped with the CT to unravel and realign the damaged fibres so they could knit as close to what a healthy tendon would be and thus become strong again. They both are working horses and jump, hack, trail up and down mountains without any concerns. Never scanned at the time of the incident, during the healing period or after. Used a thermal camera on occasions to monitor size of inflamed area and degree of heat but that was just a guide. The horses told me when they were ready to start work again. I do believe that the healing period might have been reduced if they had been on a high protein diet or likely they would not have torn their tendons in the first place. For the record, the horses had to relocate to a new yard 11 days after they tore their tendons. Vet said it would never happen. It happened! And the horses were not hugely worse off for it.
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