Knee treatment saves famous ‘painting horse’
Dr. Kimberly Brokaw, DVM, of Maryland announced this week that novel treatments introduced to counteract potentially life-threatening knee inflammation and arthritis in famous “painting” ex-racehorse Metro Meteor, appear to be working. Metro, the talented ex-racehorse who paints abstract in acrylics, and who has been featured on myriad national news shows, suffers soft tissue swelling within the joint capsule of his knees, combined with an arthritic condition and extra bone growth, Brokaw explains. His condition, which developed after multiple knee surgeries to remove bone chips, rendered him at the top level of a lameness scale. Brokaw explains: “The Lameness Scale is […]
