Early in 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved tiludronate for intravenous administration in horses with navicular disease. Despite being a relatively new drug used in veterinary ...

When news of an investigation into 13 Penn National trainers and their veterinarian broke last week, there were plenty of track vets who read the coverage in their trucks and shook their heads in ...

The results of a veterinarian survey on joint therapies were summarized by Dora Ferris, DVM, a staff veterinarian in Colorado State University's Orthopaedic Research Center, at the 2009 American ...

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Eight years ago, Scott Pierce, a horse doctor, began experimenting with hyaluronic acid as an oral supplement for horses. Veterinarians have traditionally injected the acid into horse joints to treat ...

Many of today’s competition horses have less down time than they would have done 10 years ago. As a result, there is an increasing trend to treat joints on a regular, so-called preventative, basis ...

Rick Farr of Farr & Pursey Equine Vets shares his expert advice on infected joints in horses, how they can be treated and what the prognosis is Q: Infected joints: “I was wondering if anyone could ...

A horse’s joints are key to their ability to be mobile and agile. When horse joints are healthy, they provide a seamless system that allows them to move with ease and they will be sound. However, they ...

A veteran horse is still competing in old age after beating stiffness in his joints - by doing YOGA. Super-fit Lewis, a 17-year-old Egyptian Arabian, mastered a string of yoga moves after copying his ...