Horse Nerve Damage and Injury
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Your horse's spinal cord branches into a network of nerves controlling various areas of his body. These nerves can become damaged through injury or even everyday activity, which can be difficult to detect without the use of thermal imaging
Our Thermal Imaging Cameras are extremely sensitive, and allows you to quickly and easily identify whether your horse is suffering from nerve damage or associated pain, whether this is along the spinal cord, or elsewhere in the body.
Many conditions, such as bulging disks which place pressure on the spinal cord are routinely picked using Equine Thermography, allowing prompt and appropriate treatment to begin.
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In the back, the normal dorsal stripe is the same width all the way along. |
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When interrupted, by pressure from vertebral disks, the dorsal cutaneous branch of the spinal segmental nerve sends off a warm ‘nerve root signature’, seen as a widening of the stripe, or an off-shooting horizontal line intersecting the dorsal stripe. Occassionally cooler patches are seen, or a mixture of the two.
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Increased tone in the nerves (pressure) results in increased sympathetic tone, which produces cooling in the corresponding areas under control of different nerves. Very discrete borders are seen to the different areas of colour within the equine thermograph. These areas of colour are called dermatomes. Dermatome maps have been produced to identify the correlating nerve that is affected. |
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An area of localised nerve dysfunction identified using Equine Thermography. |
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