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Three items of interest for horse owners:

1) IMPORTANT:  The November 17th equine health lecture has been
rescheduled to December 1, 2007.
A home football game is scheduled for the 17th so there won't be any
parking available on campus
that day for anything other than football.

MSU-CVM EQUINE SPORTS MEDICINE SPECIALISTS TO SPEAK

Date:   Saturday, December 1, 2007                      
Time:   9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Place:  E-100 Veterinary Medical Center
       East Lansing, MI 48824                  

Free admission, refreshments

Please RSVP to: Martha Devlin, (517) 353-3182
devlin@xxxxxxxxxxx   

or

Judy Lessard: (517) 355-0001
Lessardj@xxxxxxxxxxx 


EAST LANSING, Mich. -- You notice your horse is slightly lame. Upon
examination, you cannot find a wound,  and you can’t figure out what
is causing the lameness yet you have a nagging fear that something is
seriously wrong.  You try to ease your fears by calling your
veterinarian. Upon examination, your worst fears are realized, your
horse has suffered a tendon or ligament injury.

“Tendon and ligament injuries are common causes of injury,”
according to Dr. Rob van Wessum, equine clinician at the MSU Veterinary
Teaching Hospital and the McPhail Equine Performance Center. “These
injuries comprise eighty-five-percent of the lameness cases that I
see.”

Van Wessum, whose research interests include tendon and ligament
pathology, emphasizes that treating an acute injury early is much easier
than treating an older, more chronic injury. 

“When horses get a primary tendon injury or a ligament injury, it
doesn’t show up as a major lameness. But such an injury can
destabilize joints and cause many other problems such as arthritis or
chronic problems in the future,” explains van Wessum. “Such injuries
can actually be career-ending.

Drs. van Wessum and Kimberly Johnston, MSU College of Veterinary
Medicine, will discuss the signs of tendon and liagment injuries, the
importance of early detection, and explain the newest diagnostic and
treatment options used at the MSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

This educational lecture will be held Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 9
a.m. - noon in E-100 Veterinary Medical Center, East Lansing, MI 48824.
Free admission, but please RSVP Martha Devlin, Veterinary Teaching
Hospital,(517) 353-3182, or devlin@xxxxxxxxxxx; or Judy Lessard, CVM
Publications and Media Relations, (517) 355-0001 or
lessardj@xxxxxxxxxxxx


Maps and Directions to MSU:   http://www.msu.edu/maps/interactive/ 

The Veterinary Medical Center is located on the southeast corner of the
intersection of Bogue Street and Wilson Road. Park in the Wharton Center
parking ramp on Wilson Road and walk south out of the ramp back to
Wilson Road. You will be facing the Veterinary Medical Center.  Cross
the road and turn right. The entrance to E-100 is near the west end of
the building, to the right of the entrance to the Small Animal Clinic
(do not use the Small Animal Clinic entrance).

College of Veterinary Medicine's website: http://cvm.msu.edu 
The new website is up, but there's a lot of work yet to be done before
it is fully functional

List of Equine Health Seminar Series power points:

http://www.cvm.msu.edu/hospital/additional-resources/equine-seminar-series


2) Anyone who missed Dr. Hal Schott's web presentation about Equine
Cushings and Insulin Resistance can watch the webcast on the "MY HORSE
UNIVERSITY" website. My Horse University is a program of the Department
of Animal Science, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, at
MSU.

http://www.myhorseuniversity.com/WebPresentation/10-07_Schott.html.
The slides and audio run about an hour.

3) Dr. Judy Marteniuk, equine clinician and equine extension
veterinarian, MSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, asked that I pass the
following information along. (eXtension is an educational partnership of
more than 70 universities to help you improve your life every day with
access to objective, research-based information and educational
opportunities.) 

The eXtension HorseQuest Team will be offering their last chat of the
year on November 4th and to mark this event will be giving away 5 copies
of the new release, "Our First Horse" video/DVD created by Purdue
University. The topic of this chat is Selecting a First Horse and 5
lucky winners will be randomly drawn from those chat participants who
complete the follow-up survey at its conclusion.

To learn more about our Free Video giveaway and to Join the chat visit
http://www.extension.org/horses .

Chat times on November 7 are: 3:00 PM Eastern Time, 2:00 PM Central
Time, 1:00 PM Mountain Time and 12:00 PM Pacific Time.

We hope you join us for the chat.
_______________________________________________
HorseQuest mailing list
HorseQuest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
https://lists.extension.org/mailman/listinfo/horsequest 





Judith L. Lessard
Editorial Assistant
Publications and Media Relations
College of Veterinary Medicine
Michigan State University
F-130 Veterinary Medical Center
East Lansing, MI 48824

Telephone: 517-355-0001
CVM website: http://cvm.msu.edu



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