How lame is that?

11 November 2011 1 Comment

Actually, it’s not lame at all.

Check out the Equine Lameness Diagnosis Test from some vets at UPenn.

They give you five different case studies to work through—you get history from the owner and can run through diagnostic tests, including xrays, ultrasounds, etc. In a manner of speaking, obviously.

Be careful, though—they reuse some things from case to case, so their links are all kinds of messy. If you need to go backwards (e.g. you watch the video of the horse moving and are ready to go on with diagnostics), use your back button—don’t rely on their “back” links. Their forward links seem to be ok.

If you get the diagnosis wrong, they’ll give you information on what you should have done and should have seen, which is pretty cool. Especially if, like me, you have no idea how to read an ultrasound in the first place and stare at it thinking “Hmm, that’s pretty. Pretty much like Greek to me, in fact.”

(Misleading—I know a few Greek words, like distichomythia, which my spell check seems to think should be “sadomasochistic,” from which we can conclude that I have a very sick-minded computer. Ultrasounds, to get back on topic, are more like, uh, um, Kenyan to me. I stare blankly and hope for someone to come along and translate.)

Have fun!

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