Windy Ridge Veterinary Services

11/03/2024

The WRVS jump is decorated and ready to go for the Masterson Station Equestrian Trusts annual Hunter Pace! WRVS is proud to be a show sponsor on a fabulous fall day.

11/03/2024

Dr. Butler and WRVS is thrilled to be a show sponsor of the Masterson Station Equestrian Hunter Pace today! MET does a wonderful job keeping the equestrian facilities at the park accessible and equestrian in the Lexington area are very lucky to have a place for shows, schooling and casual riding right in their backyard.

Thank you Windy Ridge Veterinary Services for your 2024 Benefit Hunter Pace Show Sponsorship. By supporting MET, you make our work to protect our Park for the use of present and future generations possible.

10/06/2024

It's a beautiful day to have a booth set up at the doggy trick or treating at Unbound Dogs in Lexington! Thank you for the tag on social media Hound and Horse Bakery.

10/06/2024

Beautiful day to have a booth set up at the Trick or Treat hosted by Unbound Dogs in Lexington. Thank you to Hound and Horse Bakery for the tag on social media!

10/05/2024

10/04/2024

Through AVMF, your generous gifts help support the medical care of injured or abandoned animals, disaster relief efforts, education, scholarships for technicians and veterinary students, and research to help prevent, diagnose, and treat animal diseases.

09/05/2024

Someone was a little excited for his veterinary chiropractic adjustment today! Thank you Core K9 Training for letting WRVS be a part of your animal's care team.

08/26/2024

Happy International Dog Day to all of WRVS's wonderful canine patients!

07/23/2024

05/17/2024

Dr. Butler is trying to get a day in the Elizabethtown and Smiths Grove area on Tuesday, June 4th set for animal chiropractic and veterinary acupuncture services, but needs to get a few more horses on the schedule to make it happen. Appointments also considered along the route down from Lexington as well (Bluegrass Parkway and I-65 south of E-town). She also provides both chiropractic and acupuncture for dogs and other animals.

If you are interested, please message WRVS or visit the WRVS page for full contact information.

02/22/2024

Update: phone service is back working normally as of 2pm.

⚠️ Please contact Dr. Butler by Facebook Messenger or email ([email protected]) today Thursday February 22nd. The AT&T cell phone network outage today is impacting her cell phone service.

11/23/2023

For my horseowner clients- this is a great excellent and the article is well written for engaging and helping create a loose back. I see a lot of tight, stiff backs on the horses I work on which often causes other areas of restricted movement or even pain

11/04/2023

This is so true. Good animal chiropractic is usually subtle- rarely do animals get a big joint pop and big, dramatic manipulations/jerking movements do almost never helps, since it's hard to focus on one joint. When doing animal chiropractic, the goal is to manipulate and correct the specific joint that needs adjusted to restore normal motion and function to that specific joint- that's why every vertebrae is checked individually and the same is true for joints on the legs.

Recently we have had a couple of people getting in touch thinking that what we do is similar to some of the viral animal manipulation videos doing the rounds.

Chiropractic for animals should be joint specific and very quick which lessens the force required to deliver the necessary adjustment (I.e. high velocity, low amplitude). The art of chiropractic is finding the joint(s) restricted and using an adjustment to re-initiate optimal motion thereby improving the neurology and motion.

When your animal attends the clinic or we visit your horse, time is taken to make sure they're happy and content to be examined and treated. Watching adjustments is often relatively dull and minimal.

Videos showing fore limb leg separations and massive jerking movements or extreme animal reactions is not chiropractic.

*The post says: “can” look boring. Chiropractic to me is an art where it’s as specific as possible with as much speed as possible which reduces force as much as possible. You don’t have to agree but I won’t tolerate abusive private messages.

10/24/2023

Great little info on acupuncture in pets (but most of the same applies to horses!)

10/09/2023

The Equiband is a great tool for many horses to help them gain strength, learn to use their bodies correctly.

10/04/2023

RRP competitors- Dr. Stephanie Butler is offering a Makeover special on any chiropractic, acupuncture or combo of treatments! She is a RRP Makeover alum and much of her practice is focused on OTTBs. Message for more information, or call/text her at 502-785-0227!

08/31/2023

Did you know that horses have 2 extra joints at the junction of their lumbar spine at the sacrum/pelvis? The extra joints are called intertransverse joints. Dogs (like people) just have the lumbosacral joint (also called the LS junction) between the last lumbar vertebrae and sacrum. The sacrum bridges the two sides of the pelvis on the back/top side of the horse and attaches to the pelvis create a very strong connection of the pelvis to the spine. Horses have an extra joint on each side between the wings that stick out to the sides of the last lumbar vertebrae and the sacrum- these intertransverse joints provide additional support for all the forces acting through the spine and pelvis as the horse moves.

This joint should be mobile, and is checked on every horse at their appointment by Dr. Butler, regardless of what kind of treatment the horse is receiving.

If this area shows repeated lack of mobility or pain, it could be due in more extreme cases to arthritis like in the spine of the horse shown in this post. The lumbar spine flexes primarily in the up and down directions, and the most flexion should be at the lumbosacral junction. Check the two pictures of racehorses in the comments that show the change in the angle at the lumbosacral junction (taken by Dr. Butler at the Keeneland Racetrack during morning training)!

Arthritis in the lower back of the horse, and especially at the LS junction and intertransverse joints can cause the joints to become immobile, and in severe cases fuse, which will greatly impact the horse's ability to flex it's pelvis and bring its rear legs under itself when moving, and will cause chronic pain.