Re: RC: Re: stringhalt

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 10:45 PM 10/14/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Please have your friend have her horse checked for EPM.  Her vet will know
>what it is. 

>>Does anyone know if there is any new treatment for stringhalt? A friend of
>mine is training a quarter horse that she thinks has stringhalt. He jerks up
>both hind legs one is worse and can only back up one or two steps and his
>legs don't want to function. She does not think he has a stifle problem.


	I'd start with a thorough physical examination by a DVM before I started
worrying about EPM. It would likely be on the differential list, but I
wouldn't put it on the top on the basis of this vague description.
				--CMNewell, DVM


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