“Swimming against the tide,” is how Sue Devereux MRCVS describes her early experience as a veterinary acupuncturist. “I was trying to tell people that it’s not just a case of sticking a few needles in ...

Sticking a horse with dozens of needles at a time may sound like a bad idea, but it's for the animal’s own good. Dr. Anne Bukenhofer of Rising Star Equine Center in Old Bethpage, New York, is a ...

Modern equestrian medicine is falling back to the ancient art of acupuncture. Dr Lawrence Chan is one of two vets using acupuncture to treat horses in competition in Hong Kong. Provided to China Daily ...

Veterinarian Steve Dill makes his living needling horses. The demand for his services as a certified veterinary acupuncturist keeps the Charlottesville-area resident on the road four days out of five ...

On a recent very cold and sunny day, Drs. Ashley and Matt Kornatowski drove to Standing Stones Farm in Ledyard to tend to eight horses with a variety of treatments – including acupuncture. Dr. Ashley, ...

Acupuncture is a relatively simple treatment option veterinarians and horse owners consider for a variety of equine ailments, but little scientific evidence of its efficacy exists--particularly in ...

Lucy, at 14 hands high and 20 years on her hooves, has been troubled by stiffness from age, arthritis and lots of riding. The lesson and riding horse got a series of needles stuck into her ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine's new Bolton Center does equine field services that includes horse acupuncture. Vets travel to different barns to perform ...

Q. I recently bought a seven-year-old 15hh gelding who I intend to use for hacking. He is a perfectly healthy horse, but I am interested in alternative therapies as an option if he should ever require ...

Dr. Huisheng Xie grew up in a family of Chinese herbalists who prescribed custom mixtures of herbs and plants to treat any number of human maladies. But he decided to apply the ancient practice of ...