Pain Management in Horses

Dr. Anthony Blikslager offers insight to vets on recognizing horses in pain and covers drug therapy options.
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Reducing pain in horses can both help them feel better and heal the cause of that pain more quickly. How can you tell if your horse is in pain, and what’s the best way to manage that pain? What shouldn’t you do when managing pain?

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Anthony Blikslager, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, is a professor of equine surgery and gastroenterology at North Carolina State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. His research interest is gastrointestinal physiology in horses, studying the mechanisms of injury and repair in the gut with the clinical outlook of enhancing recovery of horses with colic.

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