How to Help Horse Wounds Heal
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
June 30, 2022
The right treatment can help prevent serious infections and unsightly proud flesh.
The right treatment can help prevent serious infections and unsightly proud flesh.
Shock wave therapy is an important tool for helping manage a variety of equine conditions and injuries.
Veterinary intervention can make itchy horses more comfortable and keep allergies under control. Sponsored by Kinetic Vet.
Low-starch forage and weight loss can help horses with laminitis regain their foothold.
Many horses diagnosed with equine gastric ulcer syndrome via gastroscopy have no clinical signs, or the signs are so subtle owners fail to recognize them. Sponsored by Vitalize.
For any horse with appetite, appearance, or attitude issues, start by addressing the microbiome.
4 key factors contribute to a leaky gut: diet, environment, performance, and medications.
Younger age and lower body condition appear to protect horses against occasional spikes in nonstructural carbohydrate consumption.
Consider these nutritional factors when formulating your horse’s diet to avoid GI issues such as equine squamous gastric disease.
Employ nontraditional methods to discover more about pregnancies, pathology, and problematic anatomy, all using a transrectal probe.
How veterinarians can prep horses, prep themselves, and use their ultrasound machines to do more.
Practitioners have a new tool for assessing fetal growth/age in late gestation.
The readily available modality can reveal more information so veterinarians can make a definitive diagnosis.
Neonatal maladjustment syndrome is a diagnosis of exclusion that must be reached quickly to save the foal. Learn about commonsense approaches to nursing “dummy foals” back to health.
Milne lecturer urges veterinarians to understand the “why” of lameness before making a diagnosis.
Racetrack veterinarians can trust PET when looking for fetlock pathologies that can potentially lead to serious injuries if left undiagnosed.
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