Rooney's Video Guides to Lameness (videos/DVDs)

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Rooney's Video Guide to Lameness - The Front Leg

Rooney's Video Guide to Lameness - The Hind Leg & Back

Rooney's Video Guides to Lameness

Part I - The Front Leg

By Dr. James Rooney · DVD · 98 minutes

Product # RM-03-210D · $29.95

Part II - The Hind Leg & Back

By Dr. James Rooney · DVD · 90 minutes

Product # RM-03-211D · $29.95

Part II - The Hind Leg & Back

By Dr. James Rooney · VHS Video · 90 minutes

Product # RM-03-211 · $29.95

The man who wrote the best-selling book on lameness also brings you the DVDs!

Dr. James Rooney, former Director of the University of Kentucky’s Gluck Equine Research Center, is among the world’s foremost experts on lameness. Author of the best selling book, The Lame Horse, Rooney has spent a lifetime studying the biomechanics of horses. He has applied what he has learned about how horses move to determine the causes of lameness and how to prevent, treat and rehabilitate injuries. His findings are released in his two-part series, Rooney’s Video Guide to Lameness; Part I - The Front Leg and Part II - The Hind Leg and Back.

Rooney’s Video Guides to Lameness gives an inside look at all types of injuries. Using a live horse, a skeleton and various dissections, Rooney shows how horses are built to move and how conformation, fatigue and heavy demands compromise soundness.

Rooney’s Video Guide to Lameness - The Front Leg, covers common injuries to the shoulder, knee, cannon bone, fetlock, pastern and hoof. Fractures, muscle strains, tendon and ligament damage are all described in a way that is easy to understand.

Rooney’s Video Guide to Lameness - The Hind Leg & Back covers injuries to the hip, stifle, hock and back are all covered in detail. Rooney explains why many diagnoses of hind end lameness are incorrect and why rest, drugs or surgery might not always be the best cure.

Rooney’s Video Guides to Lameness are of interest to all horse people involved in all disciplines. The DVDs are a valuable reference anyone who needs to understand the causes, prevention and treatment of lameness.