Research News: 03/04

…Urine Test For Ulcers A simple urine test originally developed to screen for stomach ulcers in people may work in horses, too. Called the sucrose permeability test, it measures the…

Flexion Tests For Horses

…this reason, hock flexion tests are also automatically stifle flexion tests. As with knee flexion tests, every effort should be made not to elevate the hock any higher than the…

A Healthy Heart for Top Performance

…fit horse also makes more oxygen-carrying red blood cells and clears old, spent red cells from his blood more quickly. New capillaries (tiny blood vessels) develop in the muscles and…

EPM In Horses

test on the CSF, does PCR testing help make the diagnosis more definitive’ The PCR test was designed to detect S. neurona DNA in CSF. Although the assay is technically…

Diabetes In Horses

…resistance can only be diagnosed for sure with specialized blood tests, such as tubing the horse with glucose to see the insulin response or intravenous infusions of glucose and insulin….

The Unwritten Rules of Dressage Test Riding

The members of the U.S. Equestrian Federation’s (USEF) Test Writing sub-committee recently had an interesting discussion about dressage test Directives?the brief explanations of what the dressage judge looks for that…