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SPORTS MEDICINE

Progressive Equine Keeps Your Performance Horse in Great Shape

Sport horses are under tremendous pressure to perform on demand. It is vital that performance horses stay in excellent condition, both physically and mentally, so that they can perform to their highest potential when it counts.

At Progressive Equine, our veterinarians have a tremendous depth of experience in caring for horses that participate in local county fairs, to regional events, all the way to national and international competitions, including the Olympics.

Caring for performance horses at Progressive Equine includes:

  • Lameness evaluation to watch your horse move "in hand," "under saddle," or both.

  • Neurologic exams to ensure your horse is up to the rigors of sport performance.

  • Farrier consultation to develop an optimal shoeing program for your horse.

  • Complementary medicine, including equine acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine, to enhance performance and to ease anxiety at the time of competition.

  • Shock Wave Therapy and Laser Therapy for a variety of musculoskeletal conditions including sore backs, necks, tendon and ligament injuries and fractures.

  • Joint injections to help ease pain associated with repetitive injury and overuse.

All of our performance horse owners receive a recommended monthly maintenance program for their horse that includes joint supplements tailored to their needs and nutrition advice that will help their horse stay healthy and in peak condition. In addition, we created custom-tailored rehab programs for performance horses that have suffered injuries in the course of competition.

Experienced Equine Lameness Evaluation & Treatment

Lameness can happen any time, to a horse of any age or discipline. Our goal is to identify the source of pain that creates the lameness. For sport horses it is vital to stay in excellent condition, both physically and mentally, so that they can perform to their highest potential when it counts. At Progressive Equine, our veterinarians have a tremendous depth of experience in caring for horses that participate in local county fairs, to regional events, all the way to national and international competitions, including the Olympics.
This is done in a thorough, systematic approach that includes:
- Lameness evaluation to watch your horse move "in hand," "under saddle," or both.
- Neurologic Exam to ensure your horse is up to the rigors of sport performance.
- Musculoskeletal exam with diagnostic tests will help us to localize the source of the lameness.
These diagnostics can include:
• Diagnostic nerve or joint blocks
• Digital ultrasound
• Digital radiography
Once we diagnose the source of the lameness, we will recommend a treatment plan to get your horse back to health. There is a wide range of treatment options that we can use. They range from simply rest and shoeing changes to some of the following therapies:
• Intra-articular therapy (joint injections)
• Shockwave treatments—High-energy acoustic pulses that travel through tissues to affect the structures
being treated. It can promote healing and provide anti-inflammatory properties.
• Regenerative therapies—Ask us about PRP, Prostride and A2M which are additional treatment modalities
to help your horse recover to his or her full potential.
• Mesotherapy- a minimally invasive procedure that uses injections of a pain-blocking agent to treat chronic pain, back and neck pain, and degenerative arthritis in horses
• Acupuncture & Laser Therapy to help alleviate musculoskeletal pain, nerve damage, laminitis, ocular pain and more.
All of our performance horse owners receive a recommended monthly maintenance program for their horse that includes joint supplements tailored to their needs and nutrition advice that will help their horse stay healthy and in peak condition. In addition, we created custom-tailored rehab programs for performance horses that have suffered injuries in the course of competition.

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