Your Exercising Horse’s Upper Airway

Upper airway problems can ruin a good horse, whether they slow him down or cause airway noise that hurts his show placings. But they haven’t always been easy to sort out because the upper airway couldn’t be examined under natural exercise conditions (with rider, tack, competitors, etc).
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Upper airway problems can ruin a good horse, whether they slow him down or cause airway noise that hurts his show placings. But they haven't always been easy to sort out because the upper airway couldn't be examined under natural exercise conditions (with rider, tack, competitors, etc).

Today there's the Dynamic Respiratory Endoscope (DRS, developed by Optomed of France), which peers inside a horse's upper airway while he works. The system includes a bridle with scope mounts (fitting over standard tack); a small breakaway pack for the video recorder, wireless transmitter, battery, and lens cleaning pump; and a hand-held video display/control box a veterinarian can use up to 0.3 miles from the horse.

 

"This is one of the most fantastic things to come along in veterinary medicine in the last 10 or 15 years

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Christy West has a BS in Equine Science from the University of Kentucky, and an MS in Agricultural Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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