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Re: [RC] RO-L - Diane Trefethenk s swigart wrote:...and the AERC should just combine all of the "RO" designations into Withdrawn... RO-Xs are a bad idea with good intentions and should be scrapped. The best reason to replace all the ROs with "Withdrawn" is that the information gained is useless. If the Vet Committee is trying to help horses by studying what things are going wrong with our horses on the Endurance trail, then the guesses by riders on what MIGHT go wrong are irrelevant. True many riders know their horses so well that they can sense an impending problem better than any vet, but these riders are in the minority. More importantly, ALL RO-Xs relate to horses who might not have anything wrong with them at all while virtually ALL VET pulls are based on something actually being wrong with the horse. Using predictions of what might happen along side of actual facts would make a farce out of any scientific study on Lameness vs Metabolic vs Surface Factors. "Withdrawn" is a nice, catchall category, carries no negative implications, requires no worrying about whether you used the right code and most importantly, won't skew a fact-based, rational study with unsupportable guesses. Dr. Garlinghouse said, "A lost shoe would usually be most appropriate to RO-L...ie, some horses (and this is a true pull, not an RO thing) show up as lame, but the underlying cause is a metabolic problem, ie tying up. The initial observation is “lame”, but the pull is often most appropriate as a Metabolic." So if even the vets can't always get it right, how can riders know whether a metabolic problem is causing a lameness or the other way around? They can't. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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