Infrared Thermal Imaging Scans Of Horses Now Offered In WI By Equine BodyWorks LLC And EquineIR™

MILWAUKEE - March 20, 2013 - PRLog -- Equine BodyWorks LLC announces the opening of the newest service area in the EquineIR™ Network.  EquineIR™ is a service line which provides infrared scans for horse owners, veterinarians, and horse trainers to detect potential health issues and injuries, potentially saving horse owners thousands of dollars and days, weeks or months in search of causes for ‘mystery’ pain and/or lamenesses.  EquineIR™ is an International Network of Certified Thermographers who have been trained in the application of Equine Thermography.  EquineIR™ certified thermographers, like Equine BodyWorks’ Becky Tenges, use infrared thermography to create thermal images that are interpreted by licensed veterinarians who have been trained in thermography in order to identify potential health problems and probable sources of pain and injuries in horses.    

Equine BodyWorks LLC is owned and operated by Becky Tenges.  Equine BodyWorks, a Wisconsin-based company, offers a comprehensive approach to assessing, improving and assuring the horse's well-being through cutting-edge infrared scanning technology, results-oriented bodywork, and world-class saddle fit diagnositics. Combining knowledge and expertise gained from the world’s top equine industry professionals in Infrared Thermal Imaging, Performance Bodywork and Saddle Fit, Ms. Tenges offers a comprehensive approach to assessing, improving and assuring the horse's well-being through results-oriented bodywork, cutting-edge diagnostic technology, and world-class saddle fit solutions.  “Horses cannot speak and EquineIR™ is a unique and innovative service that offers us the opportunity to ‘see what horses feel’,” stated Ms. Tenges owner of Equine BodyWorks. “We all know that old saying: a ‘Picture is Worth a Thousand Words’; well, now, through Equine Thermal Imaging, horses’ bodies can speak volumes.”   “I am so excited about the ability to provide horse owners, trainers, veterinarians and farriers with one more tool to use in their quest to locate probable sources of horses’ body challenges and to help their horses to be well,” said Ms. Tenges.

A good source for learning more about infrared thermal imaging of horses can be found on the Equine BodyWorks website here: http://www.equinebodyworksusa.com/

Without the benefit of thermography, problems with equine pain and/or lameness can be challenging to source and are identified using a variety of traditional methods (and sometimes all of them) such as observation, palpation and an array of standard veterinary diagnostic tools, such as x-rays, MRIs, CT scans and other modalities.  This process of sourcing the problem of pain can be quite elusive and expensive and often requires travel by and/or sedation of the horse.  Now, using advanced EquineIR™ thermography scans conducted on-site, with the horse in its own environment, graphic images are generated using the latest FLIR Infrared Imager, which create a visual map of the radiant heat coming from the skin's surface as a result of underlying circulation changes.  This thermal image provides a depiction—now visible to the human eye—of underlying circulatory levels of the body.  Since animals cannot speak, it is regularly difficult for caretakers to truly identify hidden or masked conditions. In addition, anatomical imaging, such as x-rays, cannot detect soft tissue conditions.  So a technique, like infrared thermal imaging, which does have the ability to recognize soft tissue conditions and areas that are indicative of underlying anatomic structures where issues may exist, is one more beneficial tool to have available to owners, trainers and veterinarians in the evaluation and on-going care of horses.  Now with infrared thermal imaging, many of these physiologic and anatomic issues are exposed at a much earlier stage, as much as three weeks prior to a horse even showing symptoms of injury.  Early detection equals early prevention.  Used extensively in the equine industry since the 1996 Olympics, this methodology has been developed and refined over the past twenty-five years; has benefitted from vast technology advances; and has been proven to be an effective imaging technique for the following:  Pre-Purchase Examinations, Hoof Balancing, Saddle Fit, Joint Inflammation, General Diagnostics and Treatment Monitoring.

EquineIR™ has partnered with Integrated Equine Infrared (IEI) which is the partnership between top integrative veterinary medicine practice, Inspiritus Equine, Inc., and the renowned DeLeonardo Farrier Center.  IEI provides technical direction on EquineIR™ training courses and expert interpretations of infrared equine images through the InterpretIR.com Network which aligns EquineIR™ Certified Technicians (ECTs) with IEI veterinarians specializing in infrared thermography of horses.  For horse owners who work with an EquineIR™ Certified Technician to conduct an infrared thermal imaging scan of their horse, an IEI veterinarian conducts detailed evaluations of the graphic thermal images, provides recommendations for next steps and compiles a comprehensive report that horse owners may use with their local veterinarian, trainer and/or farrier.  

Equine IR™ is owned by United Infrared, Inc. (UI) (www.unitedinfrared.com), a North Carolina Corporation which provides applications-specific resource systems for contractors of infrared thermographic services.  UI is owned by Greg Stockton and Peter Hopkins and was created to help contractors add infrared technologies to their business.  

"EquineIR™ is a service whose time has come and for which there is an eager market.  EquineIR™ provides horse owners, trainers and veterinarians with an inexpensive means of determining problems before they become debilitating to the horse,” states Peter Hopkins.  “Because we are a national network of trained local contractors, the service is standardized, affordable and high quality," says Greg Stockton.

To learn more about Equine BodyWorks LLC, please visit http://www.EquineBodyWorksUSA.com or call 414-852-8621.

For more information about EquineIR™ please visit http://www.equineir.com or call 888-SCAN-4-IR.