In this episode, Dr. Nic de Brauwere, Head of Welfare and Behavior at Redwings Horse Sanctuary, explains how to safely care for senior horses experiencing physical or mental decline.
Understanding how mitochondria change with age could eventually help veterinarians better prevent, manage, and treat age-related health problems in senior horses.
While pain is often part of owners’ underlying concern about their senior horse, it is rarely the explicit reason horses are presented to veterinarians.
Senior horses have low-grade systemic inflammation know as inflamm-aging. Researchers aimed to learn more about physiological changes associated with inflamm-aging in a recent study.
Ten percent of U.S. senior (15+ years) horses are used for competition according to their owners, and some appear to compete at the highest/international level.
