Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract. 2002 Dec; 18(3): 631-6, ix.

Use of complementary veterinary medicine in the geriatric horse.

Boldt E.

International Veterinary Acupuncture Society, PO Box 271395, Fort Collins, CO 80527, USA. [email protected]

The use of complementary and alternative veterinary medicine continues to grow within the veterinary community. As more clients seek out complementary and alternative medicine for their own health care, they begin to seek out these forms of therapy for their animals. For the equine practitioner, this includes those clients with geriatric animals. It is hoped that this article provides some insight into what conditions may be helped with CVM (complementary veterinary medicine) and when an equine practitioner may want to consider CVM as a form of therapy for the geriatric horse.