THE CITY VET EQUINE CLINIC
City Vet Equine Clinic offers 24/7 specialized medical care for horses. We are based inside The Dubai Polo and Equestrian Club, and is easily accessible on Al Qudra Road, from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road or Emirates Road.
The clinic offers a multitude of services from emergency and critical care, regenerative therapies, and dentistry, to field diagnostics and treatment.
Here at City Vet Equine, we strive to provide the highest standard of care, given with compassion.
Services
Routine and Preventative Health Care
Our preventative healthcare services aim to keep your horse in top health and condition throughout the year. These include vaccinations, routine dental care, worming, dietary requirements, and supplementation.
Emergency & Critical Care 24/7
The City Vet Equine is providing 24/7 ambulatory emergency services. There is always a doctor on call after clinic hours, weekends, and even holidays. We also offer 24-hour emergency services for all horses that can be shipped in to our clinic.
Routine Dentistry
The practice provides a wide range of dental treatments from routine rasping and wolf tooth extraction to diagnostics of more advanced dental conditions.
Lameness Locator
Equine lameness is one of the common issues that owners and trainers are experiencing with their horses. To detect musculoskeletal disorders with horses; a complete lameness exam is performed.
A lameness locator is a diagnostic tool that will help veterinarians in localizing lameness conditions in horses for accurate diagnosis and treatment plans. It has an inertial sensor system that utilizes two accelerometers. The sensors accurately detect and quantify the forelimb and hind limb lameness of the horse when he is trotting in a straight line as well as lunging in a circle. The collected sensor data is transmitted to a computer so that kinematic algorithms can be performed.
The lameness locator provides objective measurements which makes it very useful especially in horses that demonstrate a head nod and an asymmetric hip excursion can be challenging to diagnose; therefore, the lameness locator provides objective measurements.
Poor Performance & Lameness Assessment
Lameness examinations can be conducted both at your yard or at the equine clinic. Assessment, palpation, nerve blocking and imaging can all be conducted. Your horse can even be left with us for the duration of the work up to allow you flexibility, and our vets the time, to conduct a thorough examination.
In-House Laboratory
Having installed state-of-the-art Abaxis laboratory machines, we can run in-house blood tests allowing a same-day result for many conditions. The biochemistry machine allows us to run full or selected biochemical profiles including muscle, liver, and kidney parameters, proteins, and electrolytes. In addition, we have a hematology analyzer that can provide us with a full analysis of red and white cells which allows measurements of hydration status, infection levels, and anemia.
Radiography and Ultrasonography
Our advanced imaging modalities allow us to diagnose and treat a range of orthopedic and soft tissue ailments or injuries. We have a state-of-the-art veterinary x-ray machine that allows us to be fully mobile, provide diagnosis and treatments at your yard and deal with any emergencies requiring imaging at the site of the incident. It also allows us to travel to vettings requiring full sets of x rays on the yard saving clients the need to arrange transport. The speed of image acquisition, diagnostic quality, and portability will allow us to offer a superior diagnostic tool to our client base far and wide.
On-Yard Diagnostics and Treatment
Providing convenience and experience, our yard visits allow flexibility and the ability to treat your horse or pony from the comfort of their own home. Depending on the assessment which will result to further work ups or investigations, a more in-depth diagnostics and treatment will be performed at our clinic.
Infrared Thermography
Infrared thermography is an imaging technique that maps the body surface temperature and changes that may indicate inflammatory, vascular, or neurological disorders. It plays an important role as a complementary diagnostic tool in veterinary medicine, indicating any areas of abnormality and suggesting where to concentrate further diagnostic imaging or treatment.
Advanced Regenerative Care – IRAP
IRAP is an anti-inflammatory therapy that is often used as an alternative to steroid injections for joint injuries. The use of this therapy blocks one of the major inflammatory substances that the body releases in the event of injury which causes inflammation. Without inflammation, tissue healing can occur in an organized manner and tissue re-injury can be avoided.
The process of IRAP production occurs naturally in the horse; however, amplifying the amount of IRAP around the injured area within the joint has a more dramatic and quicker healing effect than the naturally process.
Advanced Regenerative Care – PRP
PRP (PLATELET RICH PLASMA) helps the body regenerate a damaged region with its own cells. PRP Therapy delivers a high concentration of blood platelets to a lesion, increasing the amount of growth factors and other cells that help aid healing at the site of injury. The concentrated blood platelets, collected from the patient’s own blood, directly injected into the lesion or to multiple areas immediately surrounding the lesion, to aid in healing.
Shock Wave Therapy
Shock wave has been used for many years in the treatment of sports related injuries in human medicine. More recently, this technology has been developed in the treatment of a number of equine injuries.
The ideas behind the benefit of shock wave therapy are that the waves massages tissues and causes a mild inflammatory response which ‘jump-starts’ the healing of quiescent damaged tissues, increases activity of certain cells involved in the healing process and numbs the nerves resulting to a reduction of pain sensation.
Routine and Preventative Health Care
Our preventative healthcare services aim to keep your horse in top health and condition throughout the year. These include vaccinations, routine dental care, worming, dietary requirements, and supplementation.
Gastroscopy
In recent years, the equine veterinary industry has seen significant developments in the diagnosis and treatment of equine gastric ulcers. We are pleased to say we have not been left behind and are offering gastroscopy in our equine clinic.
Routine Dentistry
The practice provides a wide range of dental treatments from routine rasping and wolf tooth extraction to diagnostics of more advanced dental conditions.
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