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| Innovative Equine Bone Assessment Device Introduced
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Somerset, New Jersey (July 1, 2002) - Sunlight Medical Ltd.
introduced its innovative new equine bone assessment device to the market in July 2002,
amid expectations from veterinarians that the device will improve their ability to set
training and nutrition schedules that can help keep horses injury-free.
Racehorses sustain fractures and other injuries during training and racing at a very high
rate. Such injuries take them off the racetrack temporarily, while they heal, or even
permanently. Still, veterinarians do not generally follow the bone strength of racehorses
or take measures to reduce the rate of injury.
The introduction of Sunlight EQUS is expected to change all that. With the device,
based on the company's widely used ultrasound bone assessment devices for adults and
children, bone assessment is radiation-free, simple, and convenient. Results are clinically
proven to indicate bone strength and risk of injury among racehorses. Veterinarians can then
use the results of the measurements to determine training and nutrition schedules to protect
horses from injury while utilizing their strengths to the utmost.
"Feedback from veterinarians using the device has encouraged Sunlight Medical to produce the
device for commercial use around the world. End users expect the device to significantly
reduce the rate of injury among racehorses monitored with EQUS," explains Dr. Irit Yaniv,
Sunlight's Medical Director. "Sunlight anticipates that bone measurement with the device
will become a routine health procedure for racehorses, alongside blood, serum, and urine
tests."
Sunlight EQUS is a portable ultrasound device using a unique technology clinically proven
to evaluate bone strength in racehorses. EQUS uses a database of thoroughbred horses tested
with the device. A hand-held ultrasound probe is placed along the horse's foreleg at three
sites for a minute at each site, and the unit's software analyzes this result to produce
comparative data as well as the individual horse's injury risk estimation. Studies have
found that horses with low bone strength results as measured by the device have a higher
risk of subsequent injury, making the results highly relevant for racehorse trainers and
owners.
Sunlight Medical, the manufacturer of the device, is an international company with offices
in the United States, Germany, China, and Israel. Its high-tech medical devices are used in
primary care facilities and hospitals around the world.
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