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PHILLIPS VETERINARY CLINIC
W6891 Liberty Lane, Phillips, WI 54555
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The Veterinarians at the Athens Vet Service will be assisting in covering emergency services. Depending on the type of emergency and the availability of our on-call vet, you may be asked to travel to Athens.
Saturday appointments will no longer be available after April 11, 2020 until further notice! Please call if you have an emergency!
COVID-19 UPDATE Our office hours will remain the same. After hours emergency service are still available. To provide the quality of care for our patients, farm animals and pets, we are asking for your help to follow new procedures during your visit. We are following safety precautions recommended by health experts and we ask you do the same in order to minimize the risks to everyone. Therefore, any clients that may have had COVID-19 exposure risks or if you are having any respiratory symptoms, please reschedule non-emergency appointments. If you have any emergency, call the office to discuss options. We are also asking all clients to minimize the number of family members coming in with you for appointments. Farm calls will continue to be available only for large animal patients. Thank you for your cooperation in these uncertain times.
Here is the link to the AVMA website for more information regarding pets in this situation. https://www.avma.org/sites/default/files/2020-03/covid-19-faq-pet-owners_031520.pdf
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Orthopedics Casting Casting in horses usually requires general anesthesia. Reasons for casting in horses include heel bulb lacerations, post-surgical immobilization of fused joints or fracture repairs or deep tendon lacerations. Casts require constant vigilance by horse owners and veterinarians. Horses must be kept as confined as possible and daily inspection of the cast is required to monitor for cast sores, slippage and cast failure. Cast removal can be more involved and also may require general anesthesia. Please call for more details. Farrier Consultations
Please call if you or your farrier is interested in a consultation. Kimzey Leg Saver Splint The Kimzey Leg Saver Splint was designed to immobilize and protect fractures of the distal cannon bone, fetlock and pastern. We have two leg saver splints, one to keep the leg in flexion and one to keep the leg in extension. We have used these splints many times for immobilization after a cast removal and to support a limb following complete lacerations of the flexor and extensor tendons. Please call for more details. Lameness Exams Lameness in a horse can start as a very subtle change in performance or behavior. Other lameness can appear suddenly and be very dramatic and obvious. Common causes of lameness include injuries, infections, arthritis, navicular disease, hoof abscesses and laminitis. Whatever the cause of lameness, it should be addressed sooner rather than later for the sake of your horse's comfort and future athletic ability. Because there are so many different causes of lameness, it can take a lot of time and diagnostic testing to figure out exactly where the horse hurts. While some lameness cases can be quickly diagnosed and treated some get more involved. Athens Veterinary Service offers radiographs, ultrasound, and diagnostic nerve blocks to help us diagnose and appropriately treat your horse's lameness. We will be happy to provide you with an estimate of the time required and cost of the lameness workup. Please call with any questions you may have. Digital Radiography We are happy to offer digital radiography to our equine clients. We recommend bringing horses into the clinic for taking radiographs. Bringing the animals into the clinic has the benefit of developing the pictures right away so that settings and angles can be re-adjusted as needed for the best possible images. We understand that bringing your horse to our facility is not always possible so we do offer radiography at your farm or barn location. Our machine is capable of taking radiographs of most of the horse's anatomy with the exception of lungs, abdomen, and parts of the spine. Please call for more details. Therapeutic Joint Injections There are times when a horse has been diagnosed with a lameness that will benefit from injecting specific joints with steroids and/or hyaluronic acid. Joint injections can be very successful in returning more normal movement to an arthritic hock joint, a sore navicular bone, or an old injury inflamed by activity. Joint injections always carry the inherent risk of joint infection and sterile inflammation and for this reason strict sterility is demanded by our veterinarians and staff. Joint injections can be done on the farm or at our equine facility. Injections are done only after a complete lameness exam and a diagnosis has been made. Please call if you have any questions. Ultrasounds Soft tissue injuries such as a bowed tendon, hematomas, tendon sheath infections and annular ligament fibrosis can only be definitively diagnosed with an ultrasound examination. We offer ultrasound at our equine facility or at your farm or barn location. Please call for more details. |