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Lameness: Recognizing and Treating the Horse's Most Common Ailment

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This book is FULL of information on horse lameness. Every horse owner should have this book on hand. Its shows hundreds of ways horses can go lame and "IF" there is a cure for the lameness.
Great Book

The book "Lameness: Recognizing and Treating the Horse's Most Common Ailment", is a well-written and informative book. The knowledge presented is accessible to the average horse person, and very extensive, covering just about every possible cause of equine lameness in the legs, hooves, and other parts of a horse's anatomy.


The book also covers methods of identifying different types of lameness, recognizing gait abnormalities, managing diseases, treating wounds, hoof care, shoeing, and available therapies, medications, and veterinary care. Veterinary therapies and surgical procedures are discussed, such as joint lavage, arthroscopic surgery, and the application of casts.


submitted by J.R. Wise
author of
Give a Horse a Second Chance: Adopting and Caring for Rescue Horses

This book has 1022 pages, and it is stuffed full of information.

It not only covers lameness, but much more besides and is an absolute reference work on the horses legs, feet and limbs in general. The pictures are great and very useful if you are studying.

I also liked the way there is a description of the "ailment", diagnosis followed by treatment and prevention, plus prognosis.

There are chapters on physical therapies, medications and veterinary procedures. I would have just loved this book in my student days as there is so much detail to study. The chapter on hoof conformation and shoeing options is invaluable. It is very readable and much more enjoyable than other well-known books on the matter which are far too technical.

Every rider should purchase, beg, borrow or steal a copy. Phenominal reading.Adams' Lameness in Horses

The way I see it, there are topics with a slew of decent reference books, and then topics where one reference book essentially has it all. It can be hard on Amazon to tell if a book takes a fair approach to things and is a true reference book, or is just some subjective opinion being passed off as a reference book (like a certain book that insists that eggs are a key component of Gujarati cooking!)

With an astonishing amount of detail, this book goes into the ins-and-outs of horse lameness, from the basics (degrees of lameness) to the obscure but possible causes and treatments. The photographs are decent in some places and excellent in others, and the writing provides a clear appraisal of the situation. The best part is that, like Storey's guides, there is some level of accessibility here should a person with less experience be encountering the book as a learning guide; it is not insider-baseball.

I really feel that this guide is a cool, best-practice tool to have in your hip pocket whenever dealing with how to go about addressing situations regarding lameness.

Excellent book with heaps and heaps of info on lameness and how to treat the problems. Has charts in it as well for you to score your own horses lameness. Has other health complications listed that can cause lameness and syptoms of lameness. I refer to it often. Layed out in section eg: hoof, lower leg, upper leg etc etc so you can go straight to the chapter you wish to look at. Well set out and easy to read. I highly recommend it!

This is a great book! Not only does it give you info on lameness but it also gives you common knowledge, like; where to give shots. I am ordering my own copy after looking at my mom's. It goes into great detail in scientific terms but explains them in an easy to understand way. Every horse owner should own a copy! It is also very well setup so things are easy to find. The pictures are great, showing cross sections of feet and joints.

Excellent book which addresses problems in easy to understand terms for the average horse owner.

Cause of lameness can be tricky to diagnose so the more details of your horse's movement you can give your vet, the better! This book is very comprehensive and probably not for the average horse owner, but if you want to really understand what's going on with your horse's movement, this is a must have!

Well written without being too esoteric, loads of information, photos, illustrations, right and wrong methods, etc., 4 stars because of the B/W photos throughout.

This is a wonderful book, packed with information you never knew was possible. My knowledge has increased since I bought this and has helped me with possibly problems with my horse and how to handle them.