Case Study

Pastern and Coronary Injury to a Hind Leg in a Twelve Year-Old Cutting Horse – Case Study HISTORY: A twelve year old cutting horse injured his left hind leg at a cutting competition, when he got down in the stall and kicked through the wooden wall, trapping his hind leg. The trainer, Casey Moore of … Read morePastern and Coronary Injury

V-Shaped Laceration – Case Study 7, Laser Therapy History: Canaan Land is a 12 year old thoroughbred gelding, who is a Final Furlong graduate that now works as a pony horse for Niall Brennan Stables. On September 16, 2011, Canaan Land was in a fight with another horse in a paddock and broke a fence … Read moreV-Shaped Laceration

Helping a Yearling After Trailer Loading Accident 2 Hyperbaric Oxygen TherapyA yearling colt injured his left hind leg in a trailer loading accident. When the colt arrived at Dean’s List Thoroughbreds, Dr. Jean White was contacted from the Equine Hospital. Dr. White prescribed Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (or HBOT) at The Sanctuary Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation … Read moreHBOT Helps Yearling

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Here is a current case study performed at The Sanctuary, on one of the uses of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for breeding and reproductive problems. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is a method of increasing the amount of oxygen being delivered to the tissues. This is accomplished by placing the horse in an enclosed chamber and increasing … Read moreBreeding Difficult Mares

2 year‐old thoroughbred filly presented with right hind lameness. The attending veterinarian was called to the farm, upon tapping the coffin joint,fluid revealed a white count of 100,000+,the joint was then flushed and infused with amikacin. The veterinarian prescribed hyperbaric oxygen therapy at The Sanctuary along with continued antibiotics. After the third consecutive treatment the … Read moreInfected Coffin Joint

Quick Healing of Wound – Case Study 3 Bobby Jones, owner of BryLynn Farms and president of the Florida Thoroughbred Farm Managers, contacted The Sanctuary with a yearling thoroughbred colt who had sustained a wound to right hind fetlock 15 days before the August yearling sale. The treatment protocol developed by Jones in conjunction with … Read moreQuick Healing of Wound – Making The Sale!

Open Wound – Case Study, Kudu (African Antelope) A 5 month old Kudu, a type of African antelope, presented with a wound on the right front leg. The kudu was injured on November 29, 2008 by sticking his leg through a fence exposing bone and tendons. The kudu was put on antibiotics and the wound … Read moreOpen Wound on a Kudu (African Antelope)

Dorsal Cortical Stress Fracture of Left Front Cannon Bone Case Study 2 This case concerns a 3 year-old thoroughbred graded stakes horse that was injured in late June while training at the track. He was sent to a layup/training facility where he would spend his time recovering before returning to training. Radiographs were taken July … Read moreStress Fracture of Cannon Bone

“Coon” a two year old black Labrador retriever, owned by David Richards and Olympian Debi Connor of DC Sales, was brought to the Equine Performance Center on May 4, 2009 for laser therapy on an abscessed wound. Coon had been bitten by a snake, species unknown, on the back of his right hind limb. History: … Read moreSnake Bite Wound