Experts disagree on horses with incoordination

Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:01 in Health & Medicine

At least one in 100 horses at some point in its life will lose the ability to control its gait as a result of developing the neurological disorder ataxia. Once found to be ataxic, the horse is often put down, or undergoes an expensive operation with dubious results. But now researchers have shown that there is marked disagreement among veterinary surgeons about whether or not a horse is ataxic.

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