by Dr Feargal Ross | Sep 2, 2020 | Equine Health
Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) or just Shockwave Therapy is a method of using sound energy waves in strong pulses created by the shockwave machine and then transferred through a probe which is then applied to all kinds of tissue for varying effects. It was...
by Dr Feargal Ross | Mar 6, 2020 | Equine Health
Case of the Month Bella presented to our vets at the end of November as she was showing some of the “typical” outward signs commonly reported with stomach ulcers aka Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) including poor quality coat, poor appetite, temperamental...
by Dr Feargal Ross | Jan 14, 2019 | Equine Health
Case Study – Equine Juvenile Mandibular Ossifying Fibroma In July this year we were asked to examine a weanling thoroughbred foal called Marilyn that was found to have a growth on her mandible just inside her lower lip. The growth was firm and ulcerated however there...
by Dr Feargal Ross | Oct 8, 2018 | Equine Health
It’s spring time and that means the event calendar for our horses is starting to fill up again! Whether its racing, showing, eventing, pony clubbing or whatever you and your mare get up to, her oestrus cycle and the behavioural changes it brings can get in the...
by Dr Feargal Ross | May 3, 2018 | Equine Health, Uncategorised
POD lesions occur in the fetlock joints of both front and hind legs, and are particularly associated with racehorses in training. The lesions vary from very mild bruising of subchondral bone (Grade 1) to complete loss and collapse of the articular cartilage (Grade 3)...
