Hey all, I have been doing chiropractic on horses for over 12 years now. For the past few years I have been just doing chiropractic and some equine dentistry, however since March I have started back in small animal veterinary medicine with an opportunity to expand the small animal portion of my business. Since that [...]

I am here at the 5th International Rehab and Physical Therapy Symposium in Minneapolis, MN and this morning went to a breakfast lecture. Hilary Clayton was speaking and for all my clients watch out now because I plan on pulling out the video camera! She went into detail on how to practically use video to diagnose [...]

Yes I know I have not been posting much lately, but I am alive. I have been working on a different project in an entirely different field. However I am finished with it and plan on returning to posting horse health articles on a regular basis. For those of you on my newsletter list I [...]

Well the Indiana board has issued an Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) alert. Here is the alert –> Indiana board issues EIA alert to horse owners   Although Equine Infectious Anemia is a deadly disease, approximately 40% die within one month of contracting this disease, most become carriers of this incurable disease. The law mandates permanent quarantine or euthanasia [...]

Horse neglect has been on the rise for the last few years. The majority of neglect cases are actually ignorance rather than true neglect. Many experts in the Horse Welfare community are of the opinion that it is not the closing of the slaughter plants that have increased the number of neglect cases. Rather the [...]

Laminitis is very painful so much so that a horse with it will barely be able to walk, and sometimes they will not be able to walk at all! For clarification, founder is a laminitis turned chronic. Laminitis is acute inflammation of the lamina which is the structures that holds the hoof to the coffin [...]

Big Brown the Kentucky Derby Winner has a type of shoe that is glued on to the bottom of the hoof. Now you may ask yourself why glue instead of nails? There are several reasons that glue on shoes are preferred for some horses even big horses like Big Brown. Horses that have damaged hoof walls Hoof walls [...]

Today, I was asked to do a chiropractic exam on a small horse, actually it was a P.O.A. I am asked to do chiropractic evaluations and treatments for a variety of reasons, usually it is the horse is not taking a lead correctly or unwillingness to flex or difficulty to collect or slower times in [...]

The discussion continues on the problems with horse racing and what should be fixed in order to make it safer and healthier for the horse. Monty roberts advocates for the horse in horse racing - A major step in the right direction would be to take whips out of racing. Roberts has been advocating this change [...]

With the death of Eight Belles at the Kentucky Derby following on the heels of Barbaros death last year and here locally about the deaths happening at Arlington Park two years ago, horse racing is in the media spotlight and not in a favorable light. Three years of bad publicity may just force some changes [...]