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For more information about the best wound-care products for your horse, see:
3 M Company, p.45 Dr Rose Remedies, p.41 Healing Tree Products, p.42 Jeff ers Equine, p.17 Step Ahead Farm, p.92
PHOTO 13:T e healed lip: T is unusual injury to the corner of the mouth healed quickly but leſt a strange-looking lump.
couraged new skin growth, to the point we were worried about proud fl esh. “We at empted all sorts of bandages; some
looked pret y good but nothing ever stayed on her head for long. So we did our best for over a year to just keep it clean and put on the Eclipse ointment which, I might add, many horsemen thought was a joke. But I stuck with it. T e bone was completely covered over in about a year and a half and healed as best as it could. T ere is still a big scar and her blaze isn’t straight anymore from where the vet
had to stitch it. But I felt very lucky that she even survived a wound like this without bone infection.” Lip laceration (Photo 13): This was a
minor cut, but a very unusual injury simply because it is rare for a horse to cut the corner of its mouth. Luckily, mucous membrane tis- sue heals relatively quickly due to good blood supply. T e PRP gel aided in speedy closure of the wound; however, the fi nal healing yielded a strange looking lump.
COMING IN 2012:
Our unique three-
step bandaging protocol including when we apply the PRP products, which materials we use, the importance of timing and the purpose of each step.
Special thanks to 3M Animal Care for their assistance with this series.
Since 2001, David Jolly, DVM, of Step Ahead Farm and Training Center in Hot Springs, Arkansas, has been healing wounds in a new way aſt er being introduced to platelet rich plasma (PRP) technology by a client who developed this therapy for human medicine. He has documented over 200 cases of cata- strophic wound healing on DVD and has treated over 1,500 other cases of serious injury. He consults on a worldwide basis, coaching owners to treat and heal their horses. To learn more visit
www.stepahead-
farm.com. Dr. Jolly has a new video out on bandaging that should be in every trail rider's library.
Rebekah DiGiacomo has worked for Dr. Jolly since she was 13 years old. She has worked her way up from spraying weeds and carrying out dirty buckets in surgery to coauthoring Dr. Jolly’s articles. Re- bekah and her mare just came back from college, where they were involved in the Equestrian Club and competed on the hunter-jumper show circuits. She taught riding lessons through college and is now dabbling in dressage, with the goal of becoming active in three-day eventing. She just earned a Bach- elor of Science in Biology and graduated cum laude from the University of Central Arkansas.
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