Advice on presale veterinary tests

[ccowan06]

Hi all,

I am looking into presale veterinary tests and came across one called the "Hind leg crossover", can anyone tell me what this involves and what does it show?

Thanks!

 

[Birker2020]

Hi all,

I am looking into presale veterinary tests and came across one called the "Hind leg crossover", can anyone tell me what this involves and what does it show?

Thanks!

I think this kind of test determines if the horse has any neurological concerns or not because if you turn a horse on a tight circle a horse would normally have the inside hind in front of the outside hind but if the horse has any problems with its back or spinal cord some horses will kind of spin around of the inside foot and also swing there outside hind legs very wide on a tight circle and sometimes mix up the order that they place their back feet altogether. I think it also shows how much range of movement a horse has by getting it to cross over its legs by turning on a circle and will show up other issues like possible shoulder problems.

 

[junglefairy]

As above, it's something I normally do myself when viewing a horse, move its hind end in a tight circle and if the horse can't step under/across then it's stiff and there's probably a reason.

 

[Shay]

OK.. Open to being wrong. but I thought this was the test of picking up one hind foot and crossing it over underneath the horse to set it down in front of the opposing hind. Done for exactly the same reason - a horse with lower spinal chord impingement, or mild ataxia from another cause, will leave it there or return to a significantly wide base stance. A normal horse will put it back where it usually is; and the positioning can reveal string halt or shivers. Possibly just two different ways of showing the same result?

 

[PorkChop]

OK.. Open to being wrong. but I thought this was the test of picking up one hind foot and crossing it over underneath the horse to set it down in front of the opposing hind. Done for exactly the same reason - a horse with lower spinal chord impingement, or mild ataxia from another cause, will leave it there or return to a significantly wide base stance. A normal horse will put it back where it usually is; and the positioning can reveal string halt or shivers. Possibly just two different ways of showing the same result?

This is what I understood it to be as well, its part of a standard neuro exam, detailed here -

http://practicalhorsemanmag.com/health-archive/equine-neurological-disorders-signs-11614

 

[be positive]

This is what I understood it to be as well, its part of a standard neuro exam, detailed here -

http://practicalhorsemanmag.com/health-archive/equine-neurological-disorders-signs-11614

Not part of a standard 5 stage vetting, which is what the OP was asking about, in a vetting the horse is simply asked to turn tightly to check whether it does cross over normally and then asked to back up, only if something looked wrong would they possibly do further neuro tests or fail it.