Laser
therapy on V. |
V.
is a 16.3 chestnut point-to-point horse. When racing
in the spring 2004 he fell at a fence staking himself on the
birch as he went down.
He was rushed to the vets and given several stitches to designed
to hold the wound together but also allow it to drain.
I lasered it the following day (pictured right) and as you
can see the chest area had begun to swell. |
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| Over
the next week his chest changed dramatically, at one point
when his stitches burst, I could get 1?" of the laser probe
inside the wound (always protected by film to prevent infection). It
sounds awful, but was beneficial, as I could reach right to
the inside layers, speeding the healing further. |
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| On
completion of treatment the wound was completely sealed. |
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| He
continued to improve and this is the finished result. |
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