Horse Topline-Building Tips
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
May 26, 2025
These 6 steps can help transform your horse’s topline from underdeveloped to well-toned.
All aspects of caring for performance horses
These 6 steps can help transform your horse’s topline from underdeveloped to well-toned.
Researchers have defined the significance of suspensory ligament abnormalities and their impact on racehorse performance.
Veterinarians can guide horse owners in choosing supplements by assessing diet first, identifying the horse’s needs, and then recommending evidence-based ingredients.
In any discipline cross-training is the key to keeping a horse’s neck and back healthy, says Dr. Kevin Haussler of Colorado State University.
Use SMART supplementation strategies and the ACCLAIM system to find a quality product.
Scientists are studying the safety, efficacy, mechanisms of action, and pharmacokinetics of equine nutritional supplements.
In this Ask TheHorse Live podcast episode an equine surgeon answers listener questions about joint care in young horses. Sponsored by Dechra.
During the 2024 AAEP Kester News Hour experts shared new research on equine genetics, atrial fibrillation detection, neck pain, and updated EHV guidelines.
They found riding horses behind the vertical can contribute to stress, pain, and other problems that affect welfare in horses.
Alternative joint injections to corticosteroids can keep horses comfortable and offer a chance at healing rather than simply masking pain.
Respiratory viruses affect more horses than you might think, raising important questions for veterinarians and owners about diagnosis, management, and performance.
Address the condition’s primary, predisposing, and perpetuating causative factors for a successful outcome.
In this episode we discuss osteoarthritis in horses with Dr. Kara Brown and how early diagnosis and regenerative therapies can improve equine joint health and performance.
How can horse owners keep their animals fit and active without accelerating the joint degeneration process? Dr. Katie Ellis weighs in.
Find out how Dr. Katie Ellis manages joint pain in a horse with degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis in this excerpt from Ask TheHorse Live.
Researchers now understand how 7 types of shoeing combinations affect movement in each area of the horse’s neck and back.
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