Muscle Health
Vitamin E-ssential - The Importance of Vitamin E Supplementation
Have you ever wondered why vitamin E supplementation is so important for some horses? Ensuring that your horse receives all of the necessary vitamins and minerals can be difficult, and with so many supplements and balancers available it can be hard to know which one is right for them. In this article we will discuss the importance of vitamin E, how much is appropriate for your horse, and which type you should look for in the ingredients lists.
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Muscling In: Supporting Your Horse’s Muscle Health
The health and function of our horses muscles is essential to ensure that they can perform at their very best, whether that be international level or local riding club.
For hard working horses especially, additional...
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Customer Spotlight: Laura & Jane
Background
Laura’s daughter has owned Jane, a 12 year old, 15.2hh, Irish Draft Cross Connemara, for over six years.
As a combination, they competed at BD affiliated level, unaffiliated showjumping and low level eventi...
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More Muscle, More Quickly?
There are three core principles when aiming to stimulate muscle development, and these principles largely apply across species:
Positive Energy Balance: In simple terms there must be more calories going in than are b...
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Science Supplements Launches New MuscleAid Supplement
Science Supplements, are proud to announce the launch of its latest equine supplement, MuscleAid ™; a comprehensive muscular support for horses prone to soreness, fatigue or slow recovery.
Renowned for our manufacture...
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Does Light Therapy Aid Wound healing?
Light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) are commonly used for treating a variety of disorders in horses, including wounds. Despite anecdotal claims that these LEDs shorten healing times, there is a lack of scientific evaluation ...
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Does Intra-articular Steroid Therapy Affect Tendon Structure?
Deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) injuries including those accompanying degenerative changes of navicular bone are a major cause of lameness associated with navicular disease. Injection of corticosteroids into the nav...
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Can inspiratory muscles be trained to aid upper respiratory tract stability?
Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) applies a training stimulus directly to the muscles responsible for breathing in. Evidence from human studies indicate that inspiratory muscles can adapt to exercise training (1) usin...
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Scoring system finds lameness in horses considered sound by their owners
Low grade lameness in ridden horses is more common than recognised by owners. A previous UK study of 506 sports horses in full work and presumed to be non‐lame found that 47% were lame or had other pain‐related gait a...
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New recording technique to detect a difficult-to-diagnose equine heart condition
Use of a new electrocardiogram (ECG) technique to detect an abnormal heart rhythm called paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) has been described in Nature Scientific Reports (Alexeenko et al., 2020). PAF causes rapid,...
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Your horses’ ECG and heart rate on your mobile phone!
There was a time when a horses’ ECG would be studied in specialist clinics only with the horse standing attached to a large piece of equipment like the one featured (1) (rescued from a skip at the Animal Health Trust ...
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Would you like ice with that? Whole-body cryotherapy for horses!
The application of ice or snow or very cold water or packs containing cooling gels which have been cooled in freezers to relieve inflammation, pain and swelling is a commonly used first-aid technique for both people a...
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