horse anatomy Archives - The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/tag/horse-anatomy/ Body Talk for Thinking Owners Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:40:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://thehorsesback.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-NTW-ICON-1.jpg horse anatomy Archives - The Horses Back https://thehorsesback.com/tag/horse-anatomy/ 32 32 Here’s a Round Up of My Premature and Dysmature Foal Research https://thehorsesback.com/premature-and-dysmature-foal-research/ https://thehorsesback.com/premature-and-dysmature-foal-research/#respond Thu, 26 May 2022 05:30:44 +0000 https://thehorsesback.com/?p=8094 Here are abstracts, downloads and links for my research into the ongoing effects or premature or dysmature birth in horses. These are the publicly available details of my thesis (full download) and published, peer-reviewed journal articles. The articles aren’t open access, but if you really want to read something, please contact me. As always, huge […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/premature-and-dysmature-foal-research/feed/ 0 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/yes-we-can-image-for-transitional-vertebrae/feed/ 7 A Pelvic Blow Out? The Widened Pubic Symphysis in Horses https://thehorsesback.com/the-distorted-pelvis/ https://thehorsesback.com/the-distorted-pelvis/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2020 03:49:12 +0000 https://thehorsesback.com/?p=6978 Now here is something that’s just so common that people seem to think it’s normal. I guess that if you define ‘normal’ as something that’s nearly always seen, then yes, it’s probably normal – but that doesn’t make it a good thing. So what are we looking at here? Note: this article was edited for […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/the-distorted-pelvis/feed/ 20 ‘The Size of a Walnut’ – Does Equine Brain Size Matter? https://thehorsesback.com/equine-brain-size/ https://thehorsesback.com/equine-brain-size/#comments Mon, 04 Nov 2019 23:56:48 +0000 https://thehorsesback.com/?p=6159 There seem to be quite a few social media posts about the equine brain of late – and that’s no bad thing.  In some ways, the brain is simply the latest part of the equine anatomy to come under the spot light. It’s being subject to statements about welfare, training and psychology – and that’s […]

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]]> https://thehorsesback.com/equine-brain-size/feed/ 7 How The Anatomy Books (Unintentionally) Fail Us Over The Nuchal Ligament https://thehorsesback.com/nuchal-ligament/ https://thehorsesback.com/nuchal-ligament/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:47:56 +0000 http://thehorsesback.com/?p=2902 The nuchal ligament is a soft tissue structure that is widely discussed in dressage circles. Unsurprisingly, given its deep location, relatively few of us get to cast eyes on it or feel it directly under our hands. It’s equally unsurprising, then, that most of us don’t realize that the image we hold in our heads […]

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