Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy for your horse

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy is a viable alternative to drugs for the treatment of pain and inflammation in horses  due to a variety of causes such as arthritis, surgery, and wounds.  Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy or PEMF affects pain perception in many different ways. It affects calcium ion movement, endorphin levels, acupuncture point stimulation, nerve [...]

Performance Horse Movement – a Team Approach

A horse is built to move. In the wild a horse is a grazer and the herd moves several miles a day in search of food. We as humans use this to our advantage – in the beginning a horse was used as a mode of transportation, because how they are built to move. Today [...]

Horse Health Blogs

OK I have found 3 thats right, only 3 good quality horse health blogs! (well besides this one).
I am sure there are more than these three out there but since I have not received any insights from my readers as to what else they might be reading I will go with what I know – [...]

Horse Health: Looking for a few good blogs

OK the transfer of this site is almost complete – however I ran into one small problem. My blogroll is gone! A blogroll is a list of sites that are of similar content to the blog that they are listed on or are sites that the author of the blog likes. I had a few [...]

Updating and refreshing

Well just like my Healthy As A Dog site I am updating and renewing this website. It should be done this weekend and I will be posting new articles starting on Sunday or Monday.
Looking forward to getting back to posting!

Chiropractic for your barn

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 [...]

International Rehab Symposium with Hilary Clayton

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 [...]

Dr. Dan is Alive

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 [...]

EIA found in Indiana

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 still on the rise

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 [...]

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