Recent News for Alternative Therapies
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Therapeutic Options and Controversies (AAEP 2004)
March 03, 2005
Many unethical and/or unlicensed products cause frustrations for manufacturers who spend millions of dollars researching new drugs, just to have illegal products claiming equivalency and taking product sales from licensed products. To add to ... Read More
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Chiropractic Care: A Movable Framework
March 01, 2003
Equine chiropractic is a complementary modality that can be used in veterinary medicine for the diagnosis, treatment, and potential prevention of select musculoskeletal disorders in horses.... Read More
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AAEP 2002: Kester News Hour
February 03, 2003
Probably the best-attended session of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) annual convention, the Kester News Hour provides brief reports of studies that were too new or too brief to be included in the longer scientific... Read More
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Acupuncture and Microdose Prostaglandin in the Mare
May 01, 2002
Prostaglandin F2 alpha (PG) is used to shorten a mare's cycle and hasten ovulation for breeding. Unfortunately, the standard PG dose (5 mg) also causes undesirable side effects, including sweating, trembling, increased heart rate, and... Read More
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"Alternative Therapy" Associations
April 01, 2002
Whether you choose to embrace alternative or complementary medicines is, of course, up to you. However, a word to the wise: To protect yourself, your horse, and your bank account, select a licensed veterinarian who has taken advanced... Read More
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Colorado State Offers Equine Acupuncture and Chiropractic Services
January 16, 2002
The James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University is now among the first veterinary teaching hospitals in the country to offer acupuncture and chiropractic services to equine clients. Gayle W. Trotter, DVM, MS,... Read More
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Alternative and Complementary Veterinary Medicine
October 15, 2001
Guidelines For Alternative And Complementary Veterinary Medicine (Approved by AVMA House of Delegates, 1996) Preamble Veterinary medicine, like all professions, is... Read More
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Chiropractic: Modality of Movement
October 10, 2001
Chiropractors have been treating human patients on a professional basis in this country since before the turn of the century, but it has only been in recent years that this alternative form of therapy has been applied to a substantial number of horse... Read More
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Therapeutic Options - What is AAEP's Position?
October 09, 2001
Today, therapeutic options such as acupuncture, chiropractic and physical therapy are experiencing wider clinical use. Although the mechanisms by which these therapeutic options may work are not fully understood, they do offer the... Read More
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The Equine Spine--Back To Work
March 01, 2001
First, how can we visualize and understand what's going on under that hair, skin, and muscle? Denoix has diagnostic steps to examine a horse with performance problems that he believes might stem from the spine.... Read More
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Florida's Colic Research
February 01, 2001
Nothing is more agonizing than watching a horse struggle helplessly with colic. Research-ers at the Island Whirl Equine Colic Research Laboratory at the University of Florida's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital are working tirelessly to... Read More
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Ain't Doin' Right Diagnostics
January 01, 2001
Many horses can be off in their performance, yet not show clinical signs of lameness. There might be no answers after the customary diagnostic work-up, leaving veterinarian and owner scratching their heads and looking for the next stop in the... Read More
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Equine Physical Therapy
July 01, 2000
How does Physical Therapy relate to horses and to veterinary medicine? According to Haussler, the veterinary community can learn a lot from physical therapists about taking a proactive approach to equine rehab.... Read More
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Alternative Therapies: Quality or Quackery?
June 01, 2000
In spite of (or perhaps because of) the ongoing debate about the merits of chiropractic, acupuncture, and other "alternative" treatments, these and other modalities are exploding in popularity. First embraced by human medicine, methods ranging from... Read More
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Selecting an Alternative Practitioner
June 01, 2000
Let's say you decide to give an alternative therapy a try. How do you find a competent practitioner? We know which ones you'd rather have work on your horse, so we'll give you some tips for finding the qualified people and avoiding... Read More
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Use and Abuse of Natural Products
June 01, 2000
Editor's Note: There are veterinary professionals who have welcomed alternative, holistic, and complementary therapies and modalities with open arms, adding these tools and treatments to their arsenal of care for equine patients. And there ar... Read More
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Illinois Chiropractor Forced To Respond To Warnings
May 14, 1999
An Illinois chiropractor has been warned by the State of Nevada Office of the Attorney General not to conduct his animal chiropractic seminars there. Dr. Daniel Kamen, a chiropractor from... Read More
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Alternatives: Therapeutic Options
August 01, 1998
Holistic Veterinary Medicine is a comprehensive approach to health care employing alternative and conventional diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. In practice, holistic veterinary medicine incorporates, but is not limited to... Read More
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Hands-On Therapies for the Horse
May 01, 1998
Perhaps no other modality of equine therapy has grown as rapidly as the "hands on" therapies have in the past five years. This growth is patterned after human physical therapy, where the use of the hands to relieve soft tissue discomfort and joint... Read More
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Equine Back Problems
May 01, 1998
Equine back problems are common, particularly in performance horses. The conditions involved can be primary or can result from lameness, ill-fitting tack, or even inadequate schooling. It is noteworthy that the most common reaso... Read More
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Photo Therapy: AKA Therapeutic Laser
March 01, 1998
Over the past decade, physical therapy tools have gained a place of respect in the management of equine injuries. As we move toward the 21st Century, a medical philosophy is blossoming based on advice from Hippocrates, a physician who lived in... Read More
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How to Utilize Your Equine Physical Therapist
January 01, 1998
Prior to the 1980s, physical therapy was thought to be effective only inhuman medical care. The parallels between human athletes and equine athletes had not yet been drawn to the extent that they are today. As trainers came to recognize that... Read More
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Holistic Medicine
October 01, 1997
Change is taking place in the world of equine veterinary medicine as more and more horse owners and practitioners look to alternative or complementary forms of treatment or prevention for a wide variety of maladies. It wasn't... Read More
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Homeopathy
September 01, 1997
Homeopathy is the modality most difficult to describe in this series on alternative forms of medical treatment for horses. For one thing, even its most ardent advocates and learned practitioners don't know exactly how it works. For another, ther... Read More
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Complementary Therapies for Horses
December 01, 1996
Alternative therapies, such as homeopathy, chiropractic, acupuncture, and herbal treatments, have been generating phenomenal interest in recent years, and many people believe these modalities might provide an adjunct to veterinary medicine... Read More
