The equine practitioner will find this book packed with information on treating performance horses. Topics include musculoskeletal injuries, tendinous and ligamentous injuries, fetlock related injuries, treatment of fractures, strategies for lameness, subchondral bone diseases in exercising horses, and more.

"April 2008."

Epidemiology of racetrack injuries in racehorses / Tim D.H. Parkin -- California postmortem program: leading the way / Susan M. Stover and Amanda Murray -- Effect of early training and the adaptation and conditioning of skeletal tissues / Roger K.W. Smith and Allen E. Goodship -- Biomechanical and mechanical investigations of the hoof-track interface in racing horses / Jeffrey J. Thomason and Michael L. Peterson -- Adaptation strategies of horses with lameness / Michael A. Weishaupt -- Multiple pathways to osteoarthritis and articular fractures: is subchrondal bone the culprit? / Antonio M. Cruz and Mark B. Hurtig -- Articular fetlock injuries in exercising horses / Elizabeth M. Santschi -- Musculoskeletal injuries in nonracing quarter horses / Mike Scott -- Future tools for early diagnosis and monitoring of musculoskeletal injury: biomarkers and CT / P. René van Weeren and Elwyn C. Firth -- Less invasive techniques for equine fracture repair and arthrodesis / Dean W. Richardson -- Regenerative medicine for tendinous and ligamentous injuries of sport horses / Lisa A. Fortier and Roger K.W. Smith -- Basic farriery for the performance horse / Stephen E. O'Grady.