LOVE Seeing Stomachs!

Providing gastroscopy on the farm has proven both super convenient and insightful for many owners. We are now visualizing ulcers affecting not just performance and boarded horses, but also the at-home hard keeper or “not doing as well as they could” horses at small private farms. The clinical signs of ulcer in your horse are no longer just reserved for the nervous or stressed.

Zap, Zap, Zap Away the Pain

TEVA continues to strive to make horse care affordable and easy for horse owners, and TEVA’s lasers do just that. Lasers heal when used daily and combined with a tailored vet treatment plan. Teaching you to use our rentable laser and leaving it with you for 1-4 weeks helps you to minimize your horse’s pain and maximize rapid healing.

Polo in the Park

Not only is our office at the Morven Park Equestrian Center, so is some great summer polo. TEVA has a tailgate spot, so there is always an open invitation to all of you to come by, say hello, have a drink, and we’ll talk about a sport whose rules still mystify many.

Raising Awareness about Veteran Suicide

20 military veterans commit suicide every day. In its inaugural year, I was fortunate to support Brave Hearts in their 20-mile horseback ride through the streets of downtown Washington DC in September. Around the mall, White House, Capitol, Georgetown, and Rock Creek with both the vet truck and ambulance, I was the caboose behind a group of about 20 riders. We sought to raise awareness and lay the foundation for an annual city-riding event.

Vets Getting Smarter

Always learning and growing through annual continuing education. I attended a 4-day Performance Horse Vet/Farrier conference in New York in September and qualified as an Equinosis Certified Practitioner.

Dr. Hyman and family traveled to South Africa for an advanced lameness and internal medicine conference.

Dr. Coppelman stayed local, attending a conference at the National Zoo among others and has proven invaluable at delivering learned information to clients and patients. She is also working very hard with university faculty on a high-level lameness research paper for her surgery boards.

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Protecting Young Athletes

All 3 of TEVA’s veterinarians volunteered to certify in this important program to educate, report, identify potential problems, and protect the innocent. Serving to set the example for all trainers and role models to our junior riders, our veterinarians are forerunners in supporting this SafeSport national program.

Healthy for Life

Exemplifying TEVA’s mission to provide the best care possible and maintaining soundness, preventing lameness, and proactive health care, TEVA wrote a very informative equine health care booklet designed to help identify the needs of horses based on how your horse is used. Hard keeper, senior, high performance athlete, trail rider, pasture pet, or newborn—they are all covered. Just request a “Healthy for Life” guide from us and we will get one to you.

Bronze Medal at CAC Games

In July, I served as the Team Veterinarian for the Barbados Equestrian Team at the CAC Games in Bogota, Colombia. The Eventing Team of 3 riders won Bronze medals. This was the culmination of a couple years of intense training and behind-the-scenes vetting to see the team through these Games. I cherish and immensely value the relationships I have developed with world-renown lameness and high-level veterinarians and I look forward to continuing to interact with them. Personally, I like bringing this international veterinarian exposure home to apply locally to our horses in NOVA. The next step is the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, in July 2019 for this Eventing Team.

Go Navy!

Losses to Air Force and Army hurt this year. Nonetheless, Navy spirit is strong around Leesburg. Beat Army!

Referral Credits - Real Cash for Clients!

We sincerely appreciate your referrals, as word of mouth is the greatest recommendation you can give to us. For your referral, we gave back to you through our Referral Rewards Program—about $3,700 of account credit and TEVA merchandise to the referrers and many, many half-price farm call fee credits to the referees on their first visit. Thank you for referring us to your friends. 

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