Health Management for Owners

In order to provide the best care for your animal, whether it is a horse, alpaca or farm animal, the faculty and staff at the Hospital for Large Animals takes a team approach. The team is made up of the specialists at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, your referring veterinarian and yourself—the owner. To keep everyone on the team aware of potential health care concerns, communication and education are essential.

To this end, the Cummings School provides information on everything from hyperkalemic periodic paralysis to how travel affects a healthy horse. It is the Cummings School's hope that you will find the information useful in terms of diseases or problems your animal may face.

• Sports Medicine
• Small Airway Disease/Heaves
• Dehydration and Electrolyte Losses in the Sport Horse
• Gastric Ulceration in Sport Horses
• Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HYPP)
• The Neurological Examination – Part I
• The Neurological Examination – Part II
• What makes a quarterhorse different from a thoroughbred?
• Transporting a Horse
• Cardiac Arrhythmias in the Horse

Photos on this page are of books in the John A. Seaverns Equine Collection at the Webster Family Library on the Cummings School campus.