Publications by authors named "Antonio C P Neto"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the effectiveness of navicular bursa (NB) anesthetic infiltration in increasing pain tolerance in horses' hooves.
- Six healthy horses were used, with one forelimb receiving lidocaine and the other a placebo to assess the pain response in various hoof areas.
- Results showed no significant increase in pain thresholds overall, but one horse exhibited complete pain relief, hinting at inconsistent analgesic effects of the technique.
Background: With the hypothesis that equine dorsal lamellar tissue can be desensitized by anesthesia injection into distal interphalangeal joint (DIPJ), the objective was to assess the mechanical nociceptive threshold of hoof dorsal lamellae following intra-articular (IA) administration of lidocaine into this joint.
Methods: The DIPJ of the forelimbs of six adult healthy horses were injected with either 5 mL of lidocaine, or 5 mL of lactated Ringer's solution. Treatments were randomly distributed, with each forelimb undergoing a single treatment.