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  Headshaking Treated by PENS

  Equine headshaking was successfully treated with a new treatment called percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) at the RVC
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  Multimodal Approach to Pain Management

  A Newfoundland suffering from recurrent neck pain, due to nerve root compression, was helped by a multimodal approach involving the RVC’s Anaesthesia and Analgesia Service, Diagnostic imaging, Neurology and Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation services.
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  Cat Bounces Back After Brain Surgery

  A cat that had severe neurological deficits as a result of a large 
intracranial meningioma made a full recovery after the tumour was removed by RVC surgeons.
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  Gait Analysis

  RVC objective gait analysis system has substantial benefits. Orthopaedic examination and subsequent diagnostic work-up is a complex decision-making process reliant on observation of the horse under a variety of conditions.
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  Advanced Imaging Case Study

  Advanced imaging case study of a greyhound seen by specialists at the Royal Veterinary College, who was injured when chasing a deer
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  The power of the coconut - breakthroughs to support dogs

  A new diet to help nutritionally support the management of dogs with idiopathic epilepsy has been developed. using the expertise of the RVC
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  Are We Close to an Ataxia Detector?

  Ataxia is incoordination and can originate from the vestibular system, the cerebellum or the proprioceptive system, the latter primarily consisting of muscle-nerve stretch and feedback to the spinal cord and the brainstem.  By far the most common …
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  Turning the Table – Computed Tomography of the Cervical Spine and Stifles in Horses

  The RVC Equine CT scanner is 10 cm wider than a standard CT, allowing us to image the entire cervical spine, often up to the level of the thoracic vertebrae and the limb up to and including the stifle.
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  Exciting Advances in the Treatment of Recurrent Laryngeal Neuropathy

  A cervical nerve transplantation technique developed by Justin Perkins, Lecturer in Equine Surgery at the RVC, has shown promising results as a method of reinnervation of the larynx for horses with recurrent laryngeal neuropathy