Horse Topline Troubles
Lucile Vigouroux, MSc
August 27, 2025
Discover what issues can affect your horse’s back, sacroiliac joint, and pelvis and how veterinarians address them.
News and issues for equine health professionals
Discover what issues can affect your horse’s back, sacroiliac joint, and pelvis and how veterinarians address them.
What to expect when a veterinarian performs a prepurchase exam on a prospective equine partner.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) can cause devastating neurologic illness in horses. Here’s what veterinarians know about how to diagnose, treat, and prevent EPM, and where the research is headed. Sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products.
Managing chronic laminitis in horses calls for a proactive approach. Read more in the Summer 2025 issue of The Horse.
Researchers say long-term use of this NSAID in horses does not have clinically significant negative effects on bloodwork.
Learn about two different and unrelated processes that present as firm swellings in the horse’s pastern region.
Learn how osteoarthritis can affect a horse’s comfort lying down and getting up in this Ask TheHorse Live excerpt.
This capsule gives veterinarians and researchers a noninvasive way to track ulcer treatment progress in horses without repeated scoping.
Dr. Tena Ursini describes why veterinarians need to use imaging to confirm a diagnosis of equine osteoarthritis and which modalities they usually turn to first.
Hemoperfusion—filtering blood through a column to remove toxins—shows promise for managing sepsis in horses with pleuropneumonia, endotoxemia, and more.
Diagnostic imaging results are clearer than ever, but how they will affect a horse’s performance career isn’t always evident.
A veterinarian answers a reader’s question on why some horses have runny manure certain times of the year.
An equine sports medicine expert explains common ligament injuries that can occur in the horse’s stifle region and how veterinarians treat them.
Learn why an annual veterinary dental examination is the foundation for good oral hygiene.
Researchers can now apply for Boehringer Ingelheim’s 2025 awards supporting equine infectious disease studies, with five $15,000 grants available.
A resident in equine internal medicine conducted a study to find out what horses with fecal water syndrome have in common. The answer? Certain management practices.
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