Your Male Horse’s Sheath, or, One More Thing to Worry About. Or not.
I remember one of my very first days on the veterinary job in southern California. I pulled into the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, full of excitement and energy. I think I was about to vaccinate a...
View ArticleThe Eyes Have It
I was recently asked to write something about horse eyes (I’m happy to respond to such requests, by the way). I think that eyes are really cool, so here goes. From a medical standpoint, eyes are their...
View ArticleDegenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease (DSLD, ESPA)
About three decades ago (as I recall), it was noticed that some Peruvian Paso horses were starting to break down, especially in their hind limbs. As the horses got older their fetlocks began to sink...
View ArticleIs a Therapy Clinically Relevant?
In light of all of the “options” that you have for treating your horse, thought it might be fun and, hopefully, thought provoking, to bring up a term that’s thrown around in medicine, especially by...
View ArticleReasons Not to Not Take Your Horse to Colic Surgery
DISCLAIMER: Before we get any farther in this article, I want to make sure that you know something important. The vast majority of horses that have an episode of colic don’t die or have any sort of...
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