Complementary Therapies to Help Maintain Performance Horses
Katie Navarra
April 23, 2025
Read about how veterinarians incorporate therapies such as acupuncture and PEMF to help your horse feel his best.
Read about how veterinarians incorporate therapies such as acupuncture and PEMF to help your horse feel his best.
Do you have a horse with flaky skin and a dry mane and tail? The right feed might help.
Learn how veterinarians get to the bottom of this complex cause of poor performance.
If you can see your horse’s ribs or his topline is lacking, he might need to gain weight or muscle. But how can you tell which he needs?
Changing antibiotic prescribing habits can be challenging for practitioners, but small steps, peer support, and stewardship guidelines can improve antimicrobial use.
Learn why experts are questioning routine antibiotic use in equine orthopedic surgery and how alternative strategies can help reduce infection risk.
Reserve antibiotics in equine reproduction for proven infections, not routine use. Vets should utilize alternative treatments to reduce AMR risk when possible.
What drives equine aggression—and how can training help? Find out in this article from The Horse’s Spring 2025 issue.
To reduce antibiotic use in equine practice, vets should limit prophylactic treatment and prescribe only for confirmed infections.
One expert calls antimicrobial resistance a threat to global horse health. Here’s how equine vets can improve diagnostics and use antibiotics wisely to combat this crisis.
Dr. Katie Ellis and Dr. Howland Mansfield discuss what imaging modalities veterinarians might use to accurately diagnose joint disease in horses.
Horses with EMS are often overweight or obese and also at an increased risk of developing laminitis. Implement these 5 strategies to manage your EMS horse more effectively.
Are you and your horse ready for spring? Check off all the items on this list to prepare for a healthy, successful riding season.
Consider these 4 behavior-science-based approaches to help your horse load safely.
Horse owners need to learn to identify subtle signs of pain in horses. Then owners and veterinarians can help them live more comfortably. Sponsored by Dechra.
What does it take to optimize a horse’s immune response and fight off disease? Read more in this article from the Spring 2025 issue of The Horse.
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