Traveller's Rest Equine Elder Health Links

Equine Esophageal Obstruction, “Choke” - Amanda Beaudoin, DVM;Jacqueline Bartol, DVM, DACVIM, New England Equine Medical & Surgical Center
Esophageal Obstruction, by Frosty Franklin, DVM

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Colic

Age distributions of horses with strangulation of the small intestine by a lipoma or in the epiploic foramen: 46 cases (1994-2000) - Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Colic in Horses - By Dr. Bob Judd, DVM and the Texas Farm Bureau
Impaction Colic in Horses - College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University

Prevalence, Demographics, and Risk Factors for Colic - Nathaniel A. White II DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS
Marion Dupont Scott Equine Medical Center

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Cushings (Hyperadrenocorticism, pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) )

Cushing's Disease - Equine Pituitary Gland Hyperplasia (EPGH) by Dr. Judith L. Mulholland, BSc, BVMS Farrier

Equine Cushing's Disease by Robert A Eustace FRCVS, Abstracted from the scrutineered veterinary journal In Practice (1991) Vol 13. No 4 July p 147-148

Equine Cushing’s Tests - Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center
How to Diagnose Equine Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction, Nat T. Messer IV, DVM

The role of nutritional therapy in the treatment of Equine Cushing's syndrome and laminitis. Ward, Madalyn, Alternative Medicine Review 9/1/2001

Safergrass - better manage chronically laminitic ponies and horses

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Dental

TREES' Dental information

Equine Dental Care Is More Than Just Floating - by Dean Scoggins, DVM; Jack Easley, DVM; and W. Leon Scrutchfield, DVM
Equine Dental Health - Häst, PSC (good "before and after" float photos)

Equine Dentition - Al Cirelli, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nevada (includes tips on determining age)
Equine Tooth Problems & Dental Care - KBR Horse Health Information

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Heaves, COPD

10 TIPS for Preventing Clinical Exacerbation of Heaves in Horses - Lais R.R. Costa, MV, MS, DACVIM, Louisiana State University

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) - prepared by Rachele J. Baker under the direction of the faculty and staff of the Equine Pulmonary Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University

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Laminitis

Endocrinopathic Laminitis – What Is It and What Should Be Done About It?, Philip J. Johnson, BVSc(Hons), MS, Diplomate ACVIM, Diplomate ECEIM, MRCVS, University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine

Laminitis Lingo 101 (reprinted from Hoofcare & Lameness 1987)
Laminitis Prevention and Managing the At-Risk Horse, Donald M. Walsh, DVM

Laminitis: Prevention & Treatment - AAEP

Laminitis Treatment:A Natural Medicine Perspective, by Joyce Harman DVM MRCVS and Madalyn Ward DVM

The Life Cycle of Laminitis, Gene Ovnicek – GPF, Registered Master Farrier
Safergrass - better manage chronically laminitic ponies and horses

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Lordosis (swayback)

The Truth about Horse Swaybacks - By Emily Kilby

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Nutrition

Feeding the Geriatric Horse - by D.G. Pugh, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACT, Diplomate ACVN

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