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The Horse First: A Veterinary Sport Horse Podcast Audrey DeClue, DVM
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Dr. Audrey DeClue hosts this podcast designed to help owners, riders, trainers, and others understand their horse's needs better.
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Kissing Spine in Sport Horses, Part 2: Do you ride the Horse or the Radiograph?
In part 2 of this series, Dr. DeClue continues her deep dive into kissing spine, including some eye-opening data regarding its prevalence across the world.
Some highlights in this episode include:
The prevalence of back diseases in horses. 5:37 Impingement of the dorsal spine. 10:55 Kissing Spine Syndrome in thoroughbreds. 14:43 Kissing spine in horses in Malaysia. 21:45 Radiographic findings supporting a developmental vs. acquired etiology. 33:05 The 2023 paper from italy on kissing spine. 42:43 Are kissing spine lesions painful? 47:16 Stretching the dorsal spine. 52:43 -
Kissing Spine in Sport Horses
Countless hours of research have culminated in today's episode on kissing spine in sport horses. Dr. Audrey DeClue pulls knowledge from decades, centuries, and millennia of data on kissing spine to learn more about this affliction that has impacted dogs, cats, humans, otters, horses, and even dinosaurs.
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Lead Change Problems in Sport Horses
If your horse seems stiff, uneven, and doesn't track straight, you're probably also having issues with lead changes. It's another long-thought mystery issue impacting performance and sometimes leading to anxiety in horses during drills. As always, Dr. Audrey DeClue brings a practical, common-sense aproach to examining your horse and getting to the bottom of lead change problems in sport horses.
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Expectations in Injured Sport Horses with Dr Kate Workman
Following a very popular episode previously (Episode 46), Dr. Audrey DeClue talks again with Dr. Kate Workman (Denali Equine in Southern Pines, NC) about cases cases they have treated. They discuss shivers, treatements, lameness, and more with the goal of helping you understand the expectations of performance horses and sport horses that have been significantly injured or have chronic lameness. After proper treatment and rehab, some horses went back into performance or competition.
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Episode 52: Cantering Issues and Problems in Sport Horses
Dr. Audrey DeClue discusses a common complaint among riders and veterenarians - cantering issues. Though, historically, much attention has been paid to the limbs, Dr. DeClue brings it back to to the body of the horse, where many of the lameness issues actually originate. She discusses her experience addressing cantering issues and what to consider if this is a problem in your horse.
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Shivers Horses and Its Association to the Cerebellum
In this episode, Dr. Audrey DeClue focuses specifically on the association of the cerebellum to shivers horses. She shines a light on the existing, published research on shivers and the trouble with conclusions based on a small sample size. She also includes an interview with longtime friend, Celeste, to provide a powerful story of what it is like to live with a degenerative cerebellar lesion.
Customer Reviews
Super informative and easy to understand
This podcast is giving me and my trainer a lot to think about with respect to my sport horse; particularly the discussion about the nuchal ligament and the impact neck troubles can have on the rest of the body. I feel this may be a missing piece of our puzzle! My vet is now listening :)
Great information
At first I thought it would be hard to understand such thorough information through a podcast, but if you know a little horse anatomy you can actually learn so much. I am really grateful I gave it a shot and that this information is available. Thank you!
Amazing and so reassuring.
Thank you so so much for putting this out there. There is absolutely nothing written on the thoracic girdle and the Impact of tack to the extent that it’s a problem. I have been an Equine Body Worker for 23 years and find myself working predominantly on horses that have problems that actually arise from the their thoracic girdle but who are being labeled as stifle, hock, lumbar-sacral, etc. Or whose behaviour has become so bad that they are labeled dangerous. The thing they all have in common from my work is that it comes from the very area that you discuss. I’ve found ways to help horses and get them back to work but much like everything it works with some horses very well and some horses have nerve damage and it gets a whole lot harder.
What can make a HUGE difference is someone like you who has the experience, the education and the statistical reference along with a protocol that you have developed that could potentially help horses who suffer if you had the reach.
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