Description
Box rest is often required as part of a treatment protocol, but it can be stressful for the horse and their owner. This webinar will provide you with the tools to manage these scenarios whilst optimising the horses welfare and keeping your owners happy.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how confinement affects equine welfare, including the importance of friends, forage and freedom.
- Recognise behavioural signs that a horse is struggling with confinement.
- Discuss differences between veterinary and owner perceptions of box rest and use collaborative communication to improve adherence.
- Define the specific clinical aims and necessary degree of movement restriction for an individual patient.
- Develop an individualised confinement plan incorporating the Five Domains of animal welfare.
- Review and adapt confinement plans in response to behavioural signs, physical health and owner feedback.
