{"id":1931,"date":"2023-07-24T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/blog\/2023\/07\/24\/vetlight-suspensory-ligament-injury-with-swelling\/"},"modified":"2024-12-19T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T08:26:28","slug":"vetlight-suspensory-ligament-injury-with-swelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/blog\/2023\/07\/24\/vetlight-suspensory-ligament-injury-with-swelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Vetlight: Suspensory ligament injury with swelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Condition Presented:<\/h3>\n<p>Gamble, a 9-year-old gelding presented 4 weeks after sustaining an initial injury. An ultrasound examination revealed a severely thickened digital sheath, with a disrupted enlarged lateral digital band of the superficial digital flexor tendon. Gamble was 5\/5 lame when presented for treatment and the affected area was swollen and painful.<\/p>\n<h3>Duration Of Photizo Treatment:<\/h3>\n<p>Phototherapy was done once a day using the Tissue Trauma protocol.<\/p>\n<h3>Treatment Performed:<\/h3>\n<p>Treatment and case study was done by Vetlight in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<h3>Condition After Photizo:<\/h3>\n<p>After 3 phototherapy sessions the swelling had gone done considerably, flexion of the joint was better and he showed no pain on deep palpation of the affected area. After only 5 phototherapy sessions the horse was sound and showed no lameness or pain at all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse1-157x1-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse1-157x1-1.webp 157w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse1-157x1-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse1-157x1-1-75x75.webp 75w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse1-157x1-1-100x100.webp 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse2-157x1-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse2-157x1-1.webp 157w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse2-157x1-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse2-157x1-1-75x75.webp 75w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse2-157x1-1-100x100.webp 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse3-157x1-1.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse3-157x1-1.webp 157w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse3-157x1-1-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse3-157x1-1-75x75.webp 75w, https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2023\/07\/Suspensory-ligament-horse3-157x1-1-100x100.webp 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 157px) 100vw, 157px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condition Presented: Gamble, a 9-year-old gelding presented 4 weeks after sustaining an initial injury. An ultrasound examination revealed a severely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,163],"tags":[171,175],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-vetcare-case-studies","tag-case-studies","tag-vetcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photizo.net\/nam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}