“When Dr. Bruce Indek evaluates a potential patient, he watches as his 1,500-pound client is placed on lunge line, and trotted in different directions – first clockwise, later counterclockwise.
Indek know that how a horse moves holds the key to a mystery. The length of the gait, the position of the head, the favored legs when walking, they all help him to identify and diagnosis the source of the animal’s pain.
“He’s come out three times to see my horse, and each time she’s improved,” said Tara Devine, owner of Hanson Grain in Hanson, who’s called on Indek to treat some lameness in her horse. “Her stride is more even, she’s trotting better and traveling straighter.””
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