In-Depth Update on Equine Muscle Disorders - Module 5 -Managing Muscles for Optimal Health
Species
Equine
Contact Hours
2.5 Hours - RACE Approved
Language
English
Discipline
Nutrition
Orthopaedics
Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy / Physical Therapy
Sports Medicine
Veterinary Partner
Equine
Recorded: June 2021
Part of the Online Lecture Series on In-Depth Update on Equine Muscle Disorders - Diagnostics & Management
CONTENT DESCRIPTION
Module 5 - Managing Muscles for Optimal Health (two 40 min sessions followed with case examples)
Lecture 1 – Nutritional Management for Healthy Muscles & Control of Specific Muscular Disorders
Lecture 2 – Exercise Management for Healthy Muscles
This module will cover specific nutritional strategies for supporting equine muscles and controlling clinical signs of specific disorders, in addition to the development of warm-up and training schedules to prevent muscular injury in equine athletes.
Dr. McKenzie graduated veterinary school in Western Australia in 1996, before continuing her training in Canada and the USA. She completed her internal medicine residency concurrent with a PhD investigating equine exertional rhabdomyolysis with Dr. Stephanie Valberg. She is a Professor of Large Animal Internal Medicine at Oregon State University where she has been located since 2005. Dr. McKenzie is a charter diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation and the author of more than 30 research manuscripts relevant to exercising horses and dogs. She is also the current chair for the International Conference on Equine Exercise Physiology, a global group that meets every four years to review the most current advances in equine exercise. Her special interests include characterization and prevention of myopathies in horses, the factors relevant to successful athletic performance, and features of nutrition and disease relevant to long distance exercise in horses, dogs and humans.
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