Equine Sports Medicine and Regenerative Therapies

Mesotherapy

A veterinarian wearing a gloves checking on a horse

Mesotherapy is a very effective treatment for neck and back pain. Pain and muscle spasm in the neck and back are a too common ailment in horses, limiting their ability to perform in comfort and at their best. Mesotherapy is one more tool we use to get your horse comfortable and in peak performance again.

Is your horse’s back painful and spasmodic?

Mesotherapy is a treatment most commonly used to treat a horse’s painful, spasmodic back. Depending on the horse and condition, a variety of medications may be injected into the middle layer of the skin, the mesoderm, using a specialized port and very small needles. This will affect pain receptors in the mesoderm, inhibiting the pain cycle through gateway control of the dorsal horn of the gray matter by stimulating the epicritic fibers, thus relieving pain, muscle spasm, tension, and inflammation.

As an equine veterinarian and animal chiropractor, Dr. Meddleton knows how to assess and address your horse’s painful back. Is the problem your horse’s saddle fit? Is it a chiropractic issue? Is your horse suffering from “kissing spines”? Is more than one thing going on? He will assess and make a plan to relieve your horse’s back pain.

Call Us When Your Horse’s Back Is Hurting

You want your ride to be as enjoyable for your horse as for you. To do that you have to keep his back pain free. Whether he needs chiropractic, a saddle fit analysis, mesotherapy or some other intervention we can help you keep your horse comfortable and performing at his best, so you can both enjoy the ride!

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MARK MEDDLETON, DVM

Dr. Mark Meddleton, DVM is a 1991 graduate of Cornell University, and a 1992 graduate of a Medical and Surgical Internship at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP), the International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology (ISELP), and the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association (AVCA) and has been performing Animal Chiropractic since 1994. He has also extensively studied Equine Dentistry.