Every Equine Practitioner should have IR: an invaluable tool for equine diagnosis

Equine thermography is one of the most innovative new non-invasive diagnostic techniques that can help you detect,
confirm and document a problem BEFORE the onset of a more serious injury. Before thermography, veterinarians
could only locate a problem with observation or palpation but with equine thermography, an abnormality – now called a thermographic
or infrared abnormality – can show tissue that’s stressed BEFORE the affected tissue becomes damaged.

The ThermaCAM infrared camera is ideal for equine veterinary care and is manufactured by FLIR Systems, the world’s largest manufacturer
of commercial-grade infrared cameras.

Over millennia of evolutionary time, horses have evolved so as to have
an ingrained tendency to mask their pain and lameness so as to protect themselves in the wild. This makes finding a problem with a
horse – be it recreational, racing or show – extremely hard to find.

Researched and perfected over years of study and practice, today’s new infrared cameras have undergone extensive clinical evaluations
and offer today’s veterinarian a newfound ability to locate medical problems fast and pro-actively.

IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, EQUINE THERMOGRAPHY CAN:

• Act as a sensitive indicator of early inflammatory change in soft tissues.
• Indicate the onset of inflammatory reaction in joints and tendons up to two weeks prior to clinical appearance of lameness.
• Visualize neuro-vascular changes or demonstrate the effect of vaso-active substances.