owner refusing flexion test ??

[SusieT]

booboos I'm afraid your cardiac case made me burst out laughing as it is exactly the same thing and I bet the vet is somehow to blame for the horse having a heart problem. The light shone in the opthamology exam probably also causes cataracts...

 

[Pale Rider]

Thanks for that Booboo, I'll go with Chatton.

Its fairly common for procedures, often in common usage in medicine, animal or human, to fall out of favour as knowledge increases. Time will tell.
Lobotomies make the top of the list for being one of the most barbaric techniques ever used in medicine, very popular with the medics at the time though.

 

[cptrayes]

Thanks for that Booboo, I'll go with Chatton.

Its fairly common for procedures, often in common usage in medicine, animal or human, to fall out of favour as knowledge increases. Time will tell.
Lobotomies make the top of the list for being one of the most barbaric techniques ever used in medicine, very popular with the medics at the time though.

Best laugh of the thread PR, comparing flexion tests with lobotomies. Both very successful techniques, of course, one just rather unethical in most circumstances.

 

[Pale Rider]

Glad you've had a laugh CP, I'll maintain my stolid position, but time to move on for me, lol.

 

[Booboos]

Thanks for that Booboo, I'll go with Chatton.

Its fairly common for procedures, often in common usage in medicine, animal or human, to fall out of favour as knowledge increases. Time will tell.
Lobotomies make the top of the list for being one of the most barbaric techniques ever used in medicine, very popular with the medics at the time though.

Under that logic you should reject all medical and veterinary techniques.

Just because some medical/veterinary knowledge comes to be proven to be wrong through evidence, it does not mean that we come to doubt all medical/veterinary knowledge, especially with no evidence to the contrary.

Our knowledge and understanding of physics also changes but I wouldn't suggest you jump off a really tall building in the hopes that someone will prove gravity to be wrong in the future.

 

[Pale Rider]

I think you're getting carried away with these theories Booboo, they are only theories you know. Lol.

 

[Booboos]

I think you're getting carried away with these theories Booboo, they are only theories you know. Lol.

I'm getting carried away? In what way exactly? I am merely following your argument, and reason has its own force. You are prepared to reject a common veterinary technique. At first you said it was because studies had shown it was both unreliable and harmful to the horse, then you changed that to claim that while nothing had been proven you had anecdotal evidence to that effect, then you changed that again to claim that you were certain that evidence would come up against flexion tests in the future. Under this logic anything is suspect as anything may be proven in the future to be wrong, where and how would you ever draw a line by your own reasoning?

Lol?