Equine Programme

Workshops (October 23) and Congress (October 24-25) are held in two different locations; more information will be available soon.

23th October 2025

WORKSHOPS

  • 09.00 – 12.00 Clinical Anatomy, Jean Marie Denoix
  • 09.00 – 12.00 ECG, Emmanuelle Van Erck-Westergren
  • 13.00 – 16.00 Equine behaviour Manipulation, Gemma Pearson
  • 17.00-19.00 Resident Forum

– 17.00-17.20 | Young Standardbred trotters should be evaluated for movement asymmetry after training, Anne Selven Kallerud
– 17.20-17.40 | Development of an ethogram to describe facial expressions in swimming horses, Ilaria Grossi
– 17.40-18.00 | Bone scintigraphic follow-up after a 2-months swimming program in showjumping horses with neck and back pain, Antoine Premont
– 18.00-18.20 | Ex vivo comparison of accuracy for perineural injection of the median nerve in horses: ‘blind’ versus ultrasound-guided technique, Soledad Guiñón
– 18.20-18.40 | Gait Analysis in healthy Cats: Impact of Treadmill Mode on Kinetic and Temporospatial Parameters, Monika Mille
– 18.40-19.00 | Influence of Slopes and Perturbation on Static Paw Dynamics in Dogs, Christiane Lutonsky

  • 20.00 Welcome Cocktail

24th October 2025

CONGRESS SESSIONS “PREVENTION VERSUS SPORT MEDICINE”

  • 08.00 – 08.45 Registrations
  • 08.45 – 09.00 Opening Ceremony

Plenary Session

  • 09.00 – 09.45 Prevention of Musculo-skeletal injuries in human athletes, Cathy Speed
  • 09.45 – 10.00 Discussion
  • 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
  • 10.30 – 11.00 Prevention injuries in Equine Sports Medicine, René van Weeren
  • 11.00 – 11.30 Prevention injuries in working dogs, Cynthia Otto
  • 11.30 – 12.00 Round Table Discussion
  • 12.00 – 13.00 Annual General Meeting
  • 12.00 – 14.00 Lunch & poster viewing

Equine Session

  • 14.00 – 14.30 How physiotherapy can help prevention in athlete horses, João Paulo Marques
  • 14.30 – 15.00 How diagnostic imaging can help prevention in Sports horses, Filip Vandenberghe
  • 15.00 – 15.10 FREE COMMUNICATION: Management of synovitis in osteoarthritic equine metacarpophalangeal joints using capacitive resistive electrical transfer therapy: a preliminary study, Natalie Calle-González
  • 15.10 – 15.20 FREE COMMUNICATION: Response to diagnostic anaesthesia in 17 horses with combined low-field MRI and fan-beam CT diagnosis of subchondral bone resorption in the proximal phalanx, Luca Szabó
  • 15.20 – 15.30 FREE COMMUNICATION: An in vitro collagen gel contraction assay to assess the relaxing effect of potential pharmacological alternatives to oxytetracycline on the muscle-tendon unit of foals, Emmanuel Mathieu Cardinaux
  • 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
  • 16.00 – 16.30 How diagnostic imaging can help prevention in Racehorses, Jonathan McLellan
  • 16.30 – 17.00 Cardiac screening and monitoring during training and exercise, Fe Ter Woort
  • 17.00 – 17.30 How we can prevent respiratory problems in horses?, Laura Fitzharris

25th October 2025

CONGRESS SESSIONS “REHABILITATION”

  • 09.00 – 09.30 How to improve welfare and the horse’s cooperation during rehabilitation?, Gemma Pearson
  • 09.30 – 10.00 The added value of acupuncture in rehabilitation, Bart Halsberghe
  • 10.00 – 10.30 Rehabilitation of ligaments injuries (including stifle), Jean Marie Denoix
  • 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
  • 11.00 – 11.30 Rehabilitation of subchondral injuries in sports horses, João Paulo Marques
  • 11.30 – 12.00 Management of subchondral injuries in racehorses, Jonathan McLellan
  • 12.00 – 12-30 Round Table Discussion on rehabilitation
  • 12.30 – 12.40 FREE COMMUNICATION: Surface electromyography (sEMG) of equine core muscles and kinematics of lumbo-sacral joint during core strengthening exercises, Roberta Blake
  • 12.40 – 12.50 FREE COMMUNICATION: How Does Walking Over Ground and Raised Poles Alter Equine Spinal Kinematics?, Vicki Walker
  • 12.50 – 13.00 FREE COMMUNICATION: Longitudinal Evaluation of Dorsal Mechanical Nociceptive Thresholds in Showjumping Horses with Axial Skeletal Lesions Under a Combined Training Program Including Swimming, Claire Moiroud
  • 13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch & poster viewing

Plenary Session

  • 14.00 – 14.20 Study design, Renate Weller
  • 14.20 – 14.30 Discussion
  • 14.30 – 15.30 Low back pain and fascia manipulation in Human, Carla Stecco
  • 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
  • 16.00-17.00 Veterinary aspects of the lumbar myofascia in the dog and horse, Vibeke Sødring Elbrønd
  • 17.00-17.30 Round Table Discussion
  • 17.30-18.00 Closing Ceremony