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Somerford Park Equine Clinic
We have our own equine hospital facilities at the award-winning
'Somerford Park Equestrian Centre' at Somerford, situated between Congleton and
Holmes Chapel.
Our facilities here include an operating theatre, a custom built padded
knock-down and recovery box, 4 stables for in-patients and 2 stables for
out patients. The clinic has been purpose built, and we are always
investing in the latest technology to improve the services we offer
We have an X ray machine and automatic developer on site, giving us virtually instant X ray results. We have use of indoor and
outdoor schools for vettings and lameness examinations, stocks for stud medicine, and a JBM measuring pad for official height measurements.
We can see first opinion cases of all sorts here, allowing you to get your horse vaccinated or examined without having to pay a visit fee.
Radiography
We have a fully portable X-Ray unit which can be used either at the your yard or at our clinic. We are using the latest high quality digital CR Radiography equipment to give us wonderfully detailed image quality to a definition of 10 pixels per mm. The images are recorded onto computer for later manipulation, emails etc and can be archived onto disc.
Ultrasonography
We have several ultrasound scanners, used to image soft tissue structures. We have a portable machine that we can bring to you. We also have a clinic based digital scanner which we are confident gives us the best quality images in Cheshire. These images can be stored on a computer and archived for future reference.
Video-endoscopy
We have a 1.3 metre video endoscope. This is used for imaging the equine upper respiratory tract, larynx, and trachea. The images are shown on a lap top and can be stored or recorded as photos or videos.
Dentistry
Our vets are very keen on the treatment of routine and non routine dental problems. We all carry a good dental kit with us - including clean sharp rasps, head torches, full mouth speculums, and dental record charts. We also have motorised tools to remove large dental overgrowths, and molar extracting forceps for removing diseased teeth. Mark Tabachnik is our first port of call for dental disorders.
Stud medicine
Somerford Park is a BEVA approved AI clinic. We have room for visiting mares and a set of stocks for routine examinations. We offer stud packages for getting mares in foal both at the clinic and at your yard. john Yarwood, Mark Tabachnik and Claire Hodgson spend a lot of the summer doing AI.
Surgery
We have a knock down / recovery box and a fully padded operating table. Both John Yarwood and Claire Phillips are keen surgeons, and we do a lot of routine surgery "in house". for more technical procedures, we bring in specialist surgeon, ECVS Diplomat Cedric Chan.
for more about Cedric Chan, click here.
Anaesthesia
We take a lot of care and attention over our equine anaesthesia. Mark Tabachnik, Guy Hinnegan and Claire Hodgson are all very experienced equine anaethetists. We use various anaesthetic monitors including pulse oximeters, ECG, Blood Pressure measurements, end tidal CO2.
In-patient Care
We have a team of three fully qualified Equine Veterinary Nurses. We are one of the only clinics in the country to have trained and employed EVNs. We have done this to provide the highest standard of care to all our in-patients, surgical cases and day patients too.
Alternative medicine
Leire Ruiz has a special interest in equine acupuncture. Mike Spicer has a special interest in homeopathy.
Attention to detail
As we hope you can see, we pride ourselves on offering a great service to Our equine clients. From keen, enthusiastic vets who turn up on time and who you can speak to directly on their mobile phones, to well maintained up to date kit. We even have fridges it the back of the cars to keep the vaccines cool. We try to leave no stone unturned in offering an excellent service to all our clients.
Equine physiotherapists
Wright & Morten have also teamed up with an animal physiotherapist, Anne Sweeney MCSP SRP ACPAT, for more details on equine physiotherapy read our equine factsheet. Anne can be contacted via our surgeries or directly on 07904406881 - click here for details of her surgeries.
We also work very closely with Equine Physiotherapist Gaby Kerfoot, and
the spa at Beaver Hall Equestrian Centre.