A surgical approach to treatment of suprascapular nerve injury in the horse.
Suprascapular nerve decompression has proven to be a useful treatment for refractory neuropraxia in horses. The surgical procedure used to effect that decompression is described. The surgery can be undertaken when conservative treatment has failed, but the sooner the surgery is done, the more likely the muscle mass is to be cosmetically satisfactory.
D000818:Animals; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006736:Horses; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D012782:Shoulder / Q000294:innervation*; D020196:Trauma, Nervous System; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*