Optimizing Health – Integrative Medicine & Poor Performance.
Abstract: Addressing poor performance issues in horses is a common yet challenging request to veterinarians. Often, there are limited field diagnostic or therapy choices. Growing lay popularity in integrative therapies, as well as increasing clinical incorporation, is creating more awareness of their clinical applications. Many modalities are showing increasing evidence of positive outcomes with minimal harm, but additional safety and efficacy evaluation is needed. Integrative modalities have unique ways of perceiving disease patterns that are different from more modern approaches, and these different perspectives can be used diagnostically and therapeutically either combined with more conventional approaches, or when those approaches fall short.
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Publication Date: 2022-10-13 PubMed ID: 36244943DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2022.08.001Google Scholar: Lookup
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The research pertains to examining the benefits of integrative medicine in addressing poor performance issues in horses, highlighting the requirement for further safety and efficacy assessments.
Identifying the Problem
- The study begins by stressing on the common yet challenging task veterinarians face in addressing poor performance in horses. In many cases, the available solutions and diagnostics in the field are limited.
Integrative Therapies
- The paper then moves on to analyze the growing popularity of integrative therapies among the general public. It mentions increasing clinical incorporation, hence creating greater awareness of its potential clinical applications.
- The researchers note that many integrative therapy modalities show positive outcomes with minimal harm. However, they also emphasize that more safety and efficacy evaluation is needed in these areas.
Unique Perception of Integrative Modalities
- The research highlights the distinctive ways in which integrative modalities perceive disease patterns, contrasting it from more modern approaches. These different perceptions can serve not only diagnostic purpose but also be used in therapy.
- These modalities can be used in combination with conventional methods. Also, they can be solely relied upon where conventional approaches do not yield the desired results.
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APA
Henneman K.
(2022).
Optimizing Health – Integrative Medicine & Poor Performance.
Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract, 38(3), 463-474.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cveq.2022.08.001 Publication
Researcher Affiliations
- Animal Health VIPS, 3070 W. Rasmussen Road Suite 80, Park City, UT 84098, USA. Electronic address: ahooffice@aol.com.
MeSH Terms
- Animals
- Horses
- Integrative Medicine
- Complementary Therapies / veterinary
- Horse Diseases / diagnosis
- Horse Diseases / therapy
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