Certain things just don't mix: oil and water, or wearing metal during X rays, for instance. But what about diagnostic anesthesia (nerve blocks) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a combination that ...

The results of a veterinarian survey on joint therapies were summarized by Dora Ferris, DVM, a staff veterinarian in Colorado State University's Orthopaedic Research Center, at the 2009 American ...

Desensitising part of a limb with anaesthetic may be necessary to localise the source of pain, as Dr Liz Barr explains When there is no obvious swelling, heat or discomfort in the leg of a lame horse, ...

Injection of a drug into a joint is often used as treatment where pain is caused by synovitis — an inflammation of the soft tissues — generalised trauma or osteoarthritis. If there is obvious swelling ...