Anatomy Archives - The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/tag/anatomy/ Body Talk for Thinking Owners Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thehorsesback.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-NTW-ICON-1.jpg Anatomy Archives - The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/tag/anatomy/ 32 32 Yes, We Can Image for Transitional Vertebrae in Horses https://thehorsesback.com/yes-we-can-image-for-transitional-vertebrae/ https://thehorsesback.com/yes-we-can-image-for-transitional-vertebrae/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2021 01:18:41 +0000 https://thehorsesback.com/?p=7895 It’s been a question of mine for a while. Can diagnostic imaging show the presence of transitional vertebrae? We’re seeing many bone samples from dissections, as shown in my previous article on transitional vertebrae. But if we’re to help our horses that live with this issue, we need to identify it before they’re dead. (Yes, […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/equine-brain-size/feed/ 7 Meet Spinalis, the Forgotten Muscle in Saddle Fitting https://thehorsesback.com/spinalis-muscle/ https://thehorsesback.com/spinalis-muscle/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:06 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=3366 It’s barely mentioned in saddle fit or anatomy books, yet the muscle Spinalis cervicis can hugely impact on the spinal health and movement of the horse, particularly with poor tack fit. Meet muscle Spinalis cervicis et thoracis, a far more important muscle than is generally realized. As a deep muscle, it’s influential in mobilizing and […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/spinalis-muscle/feed/ 43 Revealed: the Common Equine Elbow Arthritis You Won’t Read About in Textbooks https://thehorsesback.com/equine-arthritis/ https://thehorsesback.com/equine-arthritis/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:04:12 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=2083   Sometimes, a person from outside a profession successfully identifies something that has been unnoticed, overlooked or wrongly assessed for a long, long time. Coming from another direction, they see something that has been hidden in plain sight, simply because nobody looked there before. Update: this post was written with Dr Sharon May-Davis’s support in […]

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