A Surgery and Medicine Whole-Horse Approach to Joint Therapies

Presentation Description / Summary: This talk will provide an overview of available therapeutics for joint injection in sport horses, including orthobiologics,corticosteroids, and polyacrylamides from the perspective of both surgery and internal medicine specialists. Topics will include general case selection for each therapeutic, best practices for the preparation of orthobiologics, and screening tools to identify horses that may be at high risk of complications from corticosteroid administration. An overview of recent literature on the metabolic impacts of corticosteroid administration and practical considerations for dosing strategies based on this literature will be provided. Finally, post-injection management strategies to mitigate risk of complications will be discussed.