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Educational Courses

Learn to therapy disturbed bodily functions with the help of the most modern treatment methods.

The veterinary and orthopaedic care of horses is very versatile and modern veterinary medicine would be inconceivable without it. Of course, there are many reasons why horse owners visit a farrier or veterinarian. The list of possible complaints ranges from lameness to tendon problems and joint blockages to deformed hooves.

Here we offer 12 educational courses with an average scope. All courses include a theoretical part as well as exercises on the animal. In order to keep the lessons as individual as possible, the group size should not exceed 10 persons.

COURSE 1

EQUINE SCIENCE
  • Breed identification
  • General expertise
  • Handling horses
  • Safety measures
  • Equipment
  • Horse needs
  • Animal welfare of horses
2 days

COURSE 2

HOOF SCIENCE
  • Basic hoof seminar
  • The tools for hoof treatment
  • Hoof treatment without hoof protection
  • Hoof treatment with hoof protection
  • Hoof trimming for sport horses
  • Farriery for working horses
  • Farriery for hobby horses
  • Orthopaedic shoeing
  • Farriery with synthetic shoes
  • Hoof operations
  • Correct hoof bandage
5 days

COURSE 3

HOOF DISEASES
  • Laminitis
  • Navicular syndrome, podotrochlose
  • Equine canker (hoof cancer)
  • Hoof abscess
  • Picked-up nail
  • Inflammation of the laminar corium
  • Recognising and defining lameness
  • Deformed hooves
  • Correct hoof axes
  • Correct hoof shape
  • Correct hoof position
5 days

COURSE 4

HOOF TREATMENT FOR DONKEYS
  • Basic knowledge donkey hooves
  • Trimming donkey hooves
  • Donkey hoof diseases
1 day

COURSE 5

MEDICAL COURSE
  • Equine sedation
  • Equine anaesthesia
  • Castration of the stallion
  • Basic course gynaecology of mares
  • Video endoscopy of the lungs
  • Video endoscopy of the stomach
  • Pharyngeal blockage
  • Respiratory disease
  • Lumbago
  • PSSM, EMS, ECS
10 days

COURSE 6

ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION
OF THE TENDONS
  • Proper equipment
  • Proper set of ultrasound imaging parameters
  • Physiology of tendons
  • Anatomy pertinent to ultrasound
  • Pathology recognition
1 day

COURSE 7

DIGITAL MOBILE X-RAY SYSTEMS
FOR HORSE LEGS
  • X-ray Techniques
  • Acquiring good x-rays
  • Evaluation of the images
1 day

COURSE 8

BLOOD EXAMINATION
  • Professional blood sampling
  • Analysis and diagnosis
1 day

COURSE 9

EQUINE DENTISTRY
  • Basics of equine dentistry
  • Theories and techniques
  • Tooth structure
  • Mechanics of the jaw
  • Guidelines and best practice
  • Equipment requirements
3 days

COURSE 10

ARTHRITIS
  • Arthritis of the hock
  • Arthritis of the hoof joint
  • Arthritis of the fetlock joint
  • Hoof cartilage ossification
  • Kissing Spines
  • Ataxia
5 days

COURSE 11

DIGITAL MOVEMENT
ANALYSIS FOR SPORT HORSES
  • Analysis before and after hoof correction
  • Use of special software
  • Analyse the movement in hand or under saddle
  • Recognition of common blockages
  • Performance check-up
1 day

COURSE 12

DEWORMING OF EQUIDS
  • Determination of the amount of medication
  • Administering the vermifuge
1 day