As our practice has evolved into all sports medicine and lameness consult, and with the departure of Dr. Stewart, we want to remind our clients that setting up your horse(s) with a practice for general medicine and emergency in advance of necessity can alleviate stress if you should unfortunately need emergency assistance. We will miss our annual visits with our patients for wellness and vaccines, but acknowledge that we cannot be available in a pinch if we are traveling. Therefore we advise considering your options of other practices, and setting up an account with them before your spring vaccines may be due. This will allow the veterinarian that you call in an emergency an opportunity to meet you and your horse(s) and establish a relationship that you are comfortable with. Emergencies are stressful enough, but having a plan of who to call when you have one is the first step.

We are looking forward to continuing to see all of our friends, human and equine, in the future for your sports medicine and lameness needs. As always we hope to help our patients the best we can, whether they are in need of diagnosis or management!!

Jan. 15, 2010

Wellness Plan

Over the last few years much new research in the areas of parasite control, metabolic disease, and Lyme infection in horses has become available to the veterinary community. Parasite resistance to many deworming products has developed rapidly and we are seeing the effect of this in many of our patients. Our understanding of parasite infection in adult horses has become much more nuanced and we have developed new protocols to detect and treat this condition in our patients. Metabolic disease, and its sequelae laminitis, also poses a risk to a large portion of our patients. We have improved our ability to test and treat diseases such as Cushings, insulin resistance, and equine metabolic syndrome. Finally, we now have an economical means to screen for Lyme disease.

These three disease complexes have emerged as major health issues facing our patients. In response we have designed an equine wellness plan to address these concerns while providing core vaccinations and EIA (coggins) testing.

Annual Wellness Plan – $250.00

  • Coggins Testing – plus PDF copy sent to your email
  • Core Vaccines – West Nile, Eastern & Western Encephalitis, Tetanus, and Rabies
  • Physical Exam
  • Dietary Evaluation
  • Fecal Ova and Parasite Screening
  • Diagnostic Based Parasite Control Plan
  • Lyme Disease Screening

We are excited about the impact that this plan can have on the health of your horses. If you are interested in the wellness plan please give us a call!


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