About this episode

The episode discusses deep digital flexor tenotomy as a potential solution for chronic laminitis in horses, featuring insights from Dr. Jim Orsini.

Send us Fan Mail Chronic laminitis forces every equine clinician into the same hard question: when comfort keeps slipping and radiographs keep worsening, what can truly change the mechanics of the foot and the horse’s day-to-day life? We sit down with Dr. Jim Orsini to talk about deep digital flexor (DDF) tenotomy, a procedure many people still treat as “last resort,” and why the data argue it may deserve earlier consideration in the right chronic rotational laminitis cases. We dig into what...

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Guest: Dr. Jim Orsini

Topics covered

• chronic laminitis
• equine medicine
• deep digital flexor tenotomy
• pain relief
• foot mechanics

Keywords

• laminitis
• equine clinician
• DDF tenotomy
• pain management
• horse care

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