The Systematic Equine Neurologic Exam
Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
August 26, 2024
A slow, steady, step-by-step approach helps veterinarians localize lesions in neurologic adult horses.
A slow, steady, step-by-step approach helps veterinarians localize lesions in neurologic adult horses.
Learn why this antioxidant is important for muscle health and how to supplement it safely.
Dietary deficiency of vitamin E can lead to three specific neurologic and muscular diseases. Find out if your horse is getting enough.
The affected 18-year-old Quarter Horse gelding developed clinical signs on June 7 and subsequently tested positive for both EHV-1 and EPM. The horse had been vaccinated and is recovering.
With routine blood work and a strategic supplementation protocol, you can help your horse avoid the negative consequences associated with vitamin E deficiency. Here’s how.
One additional case of EHV-1 abortion was confirmed in Humboldt County in April. The NDA did not issue a quarantine for this case because the incubation period has passed and no horses have been moved to or from the property.
Many other conditions besides colic can cause coliclike signs. And as with colic, delayed treatment or misdiagnosis can have serious consequences. Here’s what you need to know.
Vitamin E deficiencies can cause neurologic and other health problems in horses. As such, at-risk horses—from breeding stock and foals to equine athletes and pasture pets—might benefit from supplementation.
A correct diet can make these sometimes-debilitating conditions manageable.
One researcher reviews vitamin E supplementation in horses with neurologic disorders.
Researchers and veterinarians are still working to better understand both the etiology and the disease itself.
Horses with neurologic disease often receive oral vitamin E supplementation.
Diagnosis and treatment recommendations for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), the evolution of West Nile virus, and a new treatment option for equine herpesvirus were discussed at the 2009 convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners.
A triad of factors, namely sex, breed, and age, are all associated with the development of cervical vertebral compressive myelopathy (CVCM) according to one of the latest studies published by researchers at the College of
Shivers has been recognized by horse owners for more than a century and refers to a chronic nervous or neuromuscular condition that in a 1962 text was said to be “as common as dirt.” This statement referred to the period when draft horse populations
Study results indicate horses with equine lower motor disease (EMND) had an increased glucose metabolism rate.
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