Vet Cetera magazine 2015

GARY LAWSON / UNIVERSITY MARKETING
Treating Equine Athletes
GAYLORD FOUNDATION’S GIFT LEADS
TO STATE-OF-THE-ART HORSE HOSPITAL
Thanks to a $1 million lead gift from the E.L. and
Thelma Gaylord Foundation, the Gaylord Center for
Excellence in Equine Health is open to treat equine
athletes. The gift created versatile new space by
renovating areas within the OSU equine hospital
and providing funds for diagnosis, treatment and
rehabilitation equipment.
The newly renovated space creates
an outpatient service area. A separate
overhead door allows sport
horses to enter the Gaylord Equine
Performance Suite directly from the
lameness examination area. Separate,
specialized heating, ventilation and
air conditioning systems make the
diagnostic area comfortable. In addition,
specialty equipment for rehabilitation
and regenerative medicine
is now centrally located adjacent to
the exam area.
Six equine stalls were remodeled,
forming three enlarged stalls for
mare and foal hospitalization. Swinging
stall partitions with Dutch doors
accommodate mares while allowing
the management of critically ill foals
in the adjacent partitioned stall with
separate access for veterinary medical
staff. The stall partitions can also
be positioned to provide full 12x24-
foot stalls for the hospitalization of
larger breed horses such as Drafts and
warmbloods.
CONTINUES
GARY LAWSON / UNIVERSITY MARKETING
Dr. Mike Schoonover,
equine surgeon and
sports medicine and
rehabilitation specialist,
performs a coffin joint
injection on a horse with
osteoarthritis.
Dr. Todd Holbrook,
professor and June Jacobs
Endowed Chair in Equine
Medicine and equine section
chief, poses with a resident
horse in the Gaylord
Equine Performance Suite.
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