Emma Poole DVM

10/11/2023

09/28/2023

Great how-to on feeling digital pulses!

07/27/2023

Hi everyone! I’ve had a lot of interest in how Lainey is doing post-op, so I thought I’d check in!
Backstory: Lainey has 4 lesions of dorsal spinous process impingement, or “kissing spines” that we confirmed were causing not only significant back pain, but also a prominent hindlimb lameness. She previously responded very well to medical management - shockwave, acupuncture, and mesotherapy. However within 3 months, the back pain and lameness returned.
2 weeks ago, she had a procedure called “interspinous ligament desmotomy”, where the surgeon cut the attachment of the interspinous ligament that connects the dorsal spinous processes. While this sounds scary, it’s done under just standing sedation and you can see the incisions aren’t very big at all!
At suture remove today, there is already a DRAMATIC improvement in back pain on palpation. Additionally, I noticed that she’s not twisting her right hind leg at a walk anymore- something she’s done for over a year that I couldn’t get to the bottom of!
Stay tuned for her continued rehab!

01/26/2022

This is great info from on rabies in horses. Please, please keep your horses UTD on rabies or have a rabies titer drawn if they are prone to reactions. When you leave your horses unvaccinated you not only put them at risk, but any humans that interact with them.
Rabies in horses presents similar to MANY other things, so often humans are exposed before we know that it is rabies. It makes our job very hard when we see a horse that has a medical problem that is not up to date. Rabies is fatal, to both humans and horses, and is a horrific disease to have to see.

10/27/2021

07/30/2021

One-eyed horses can live COMPLETELY normal lives, and even compete in the Olympics!

It was a bout of uveitis (inflammation of the eye’s uveal tract that can often result in blindness) that would eventually cost Viscera (Fidertanz 2 – Wilhelmientje, by Wolkentanz), a 13-year-old Hanoverian mare piloted for

07/14/2021

Trivia time! 🤓🤓🤓
What procedure is this, and why is it being performed? BONUS what other therapies might this horse benefit from???

07/09/2021

Hi all!! I know it’s been a while, but seemed like a good time to hop back on!!

This thoroughbred mare (owned my me ) tends to become very broken back in her hoof-pastern axis. Especially if her owner is bad about sticking to a 4 week schedule 😬🙈This causes her to have coffin joint synovitis (inflammation).
These radiographs show how with just a trim (this is a flat shoe and pad) my farrier was able to take her from a negative palmar angle to +3.15, and a much happier hoof pastern axis alignment! He also gave her a rolled toe shoe to make her breakover easier, and make that coffin joint a little happier.
Thank you thank you and happy farriers week!!!
The last photo is our new QH who has perfect feet 🥰😁