Rehabilitating Horses with Obesity-Associated Laminitis
Alexandra Beckstett
January 11, 2014
Tailored hoof care and husbandry practices could help affected horses return to health.
Prevention and treatment for problems of the equine foot
Tailored hoof care and husbandry practices could help affected horses return to health.
Researchers are seeking veterinarians from around the world to participate in a laminitis study in 2014.
One farrier developed a program for rehabilitating horses recovering from EMS-associated laminitis.
The program includes lectures on feeding senior horses, saddle fitting, moon blindness, bandaging, and more.
Which were the most accessed videos, slideshows, reports, and podcasts in 2013? Here’s a list of the top 10.
Covering a variety of horse health topics, the following articles received the most views in 2013.
The team of 3-D printing experts from Australia’s CSIRO worked with podiatrists to produce “horse-thotics.”
More than half of the readers responding to a recent poll said their horses go barefoot year-round.
Intra-arterial injection is the “preferred” technique for administrating MSCs to the horse’s foot.
Researchers are studying whether stem cell therapy could help stabilize chronic laminitis cases.
Complicated laminitis cases carry a poor prognosis, but some have responded to treatment with foot casts.
Managing a horse with chronic laminitis is hardly a one-man job. Both veterinarian and farrier expertise is required to rehabilitate and maintain these horses’ feet for the best possible outcome.
Diet plays a very important role in managing insulin-resistant horses. Learn how you can use nutritional planning to manage this condition.
Because there’s no one-size-fits-all formula to managing laminitic horses’ pain, owners should work with their veterinarians to tailor a multimodal approach for each individual case.
Researchers found that horses with evidence of colitis that received preventive cryotherapy were 10 times less likely to develop laminitis than horses that did not receive ice.
During pregnancy, a broodmare’s body and hormones go through many changes. And the endocrine changes associated with pregnancy might actually increase the mare’s risk of developing laminitis.
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