Media Coverage
| www.mdhorse.com June 14, 2004 |
What Can You Do About Bowed Tendons In one instance, a 5-year old gelding race horse suffered what the veterinarian believed to be a career-ending bowed tendon. The horse received daily treatments in the equine hyperbaric chamber… By the end of the six-week full-track training, the horse was deemed sound and ready to race. Other horses have demonstrated similar results… |
| www.thehorse.com February 6, 2004 |
Healing Under Pressure As usual, when human medicine makes a breakthrough, it isn’t long until someone figures out how to help horses with that same type of therapy. Enter Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) for horses. |
| www.cbsnews.com July 16, 2003 |
A Bluegrass Whodunnit … Two weeks ago, someone snuck into the barns in the middle of the night and injected all five horses with an unknown toxin that attacked their flesh. The horses are now given daily treatments in a hyperbaric chamber. Pure oxygen helps the flesh grow back faster. |
| The Blood Horse January 25, 2003 |
Delivering the Goods A couple of the advances touched on are so new in equine neonatal medicine that they are really on the cutting edge. These are hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) and biologic solutions that offer an alternative to red blood cell transfusions for delivering oxygen into oxygen deprived cells. Three major conditions in neonatal foals—neonatal isoerythrolysis, septicemia, and asphyxia—might one day be managed more effectively by the application of these promising modalities. HBOT would be used as adjunctive therapy for a variety of equine neonatal diseases to enhance conventional medicine. Contact us for full reprint: equineox@telus.net |
| The Blood Horse January 25, 2003 |
Herthel the Healer “… I felt like I might have been able to help her with a hyperbaric oxygen chamber,” Herthel (Doug, DVM) said. The solution came from another source: Equineox Technologies…to buy one of the company’s chambers. The device, which delivers oxygen at a greater than normal pressure, proved to be a good investment. Contact us for full reprint: equineox@telus.net |
| TROT July 2000 |
Hyperbaric for Horses Dr. Michael Perron, a veterinarian in Surrey, BC, has seen the effects of equine HBOT firsthand. One, a six-year-old gelding, contracted a post surgical infection after having the annular ligament around the fetlock joint cut to relieve pressure on the flexor tendon. The annular ligament resection surgery resulted in an infection that Perron says had healed “reasonable well” until the trainer took the horse out on the track. The wound broke open, and contamination from the track reinfected it. …since the horse’s leg was swollen to three times its normal size and the animal was laying down on the floor of its stall, the fact that its wound had drained and it could walk again after a dose of antibiotics and several hours in the chamber is significant. Contact us for full reprint: equineox@telus.net |
| The Journal of Equine Veterinary Science Volume 20, Number 4, 2000 |
Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy Results of the initial trials in Canada have been nothing short of spectacular. Various types of slow-healing wounds have been treated. For instance a Standardbred horse had a nasty infection from annular ligament resection surgery where a great amount of swelling had occurred from the fetlock to the hock. After four 2-hour daily treatments the wound was completely healed. A severe castration swelling was also treated and cleared up quickly. Five horses with bowed tendons were treated successfully. Four horses with bucked shins were cured enough to put them back into weekly racing with every-other-day treatments between races. A long-standing case of girth disease, a severe skin infection, was cured after four treatments. A carpal ligament tear was successfully treated. While these results are anecdotal, the effectiveness of oxygen saturation was dramatized with treatment of horses with Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemmorhage (EIPH). Contact us for full reprint: equineox@telus.net |
Links
Equine Veterinary Network: Volumes of reference material for the horse owner, enthusiast or veterinary professional. A directory of equine related businesses. Home to the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, official publication of several equine organizations including The World Equine Veterinary Association.
www.equinevetnet.com
AAEP: The American Association of Equine Practitioners: “Improving the health and welfare of the horse, furthering the professional development of its members, and providing resources and leadership for the benefit of the equine industry.”
www.aaep.org
Alamo Pintado: One of North America's leading equine medical centers. A full service facility equipped with the most advanced in equine medical treatment technology, including an equine hyperbaric chamber.
Official APEMC page: www.alamopintado.com
UHMS: (The Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society)
An association of nurses, technicians, respiratory therapists and others who work in the field of diving and hyperbaric medicine.
www.uhms.org
The Haynet: “A comprehensive directory of horse related sites.”
www.haynet.net
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