Are you confident you are doing the very best you can do to keep your horse sound?
If you are an owner, rider, trainer, groom, breeder, veterinarian, or care provider, you can rest assured that AERI is developing innovative new solutions for your horse to wear, to help keep your horse from going lame.
Key Statistics
- Annual incidence of lameness is approximately 9 to 14 events per 100 horses.**
- Virtually all small and large barn operations surveyed have had one or more resident horses lame in the prior 12-month period.***
- Lameness is responsible for nearly 8% of all equine losses annually.**
- Lameness is the most frequent cause of non-ambulation (30.6%) in horses.**
IN OUR SCIENTIFIC OPINION: CURRENT PRODUCTS DON'T DO ENOUGH TO PREVENT LOWER LIMB TENDON AND LIGAMENT INJURIES.
There are many products—like boots and polo wraps—currently being marketed and used as guards against injury or as adjuncts to a veterinarian's recommendations for treating lameness. But many of them have little or no scientific basis for use.
Scientists, researchers, and engineers collaborate
at one of AERI's innovation meetings.
When it comes to effective limb protection, Advanced Equine Research Institute is applying unprecedented scientific focus to design and develop novel bioengineered solutions that can help prevent lameness in athletic horses.
In addition to the company's in-house scientific expertise, AERI is fortunate to have a group of consultant specialists from around the world who contribute novel ideas and innovations into our R&D process. The team consists of leading veterinary orthopedic specialists, engineers (biomedical, material, and structural), industrial designers, trainers, exercise physiologists, and equine professionals.
And, because we must meet veterinarians' needs and expectations, we work with an international panel of 14 leading vets who have helped us learn more about how to help keep athletic horses sound.
A DESIGN INNOVATION PROCESS LIKE NONE OTHER IN THE EQUINE INDUSTRY.
Our mission is to develop novel lower limb protection that prevents lameness, or hastens recovery from injury. To ensure that we deliver on our promise, we are using the same design innovation process used by market share leaders in other industries, for example BMW and Procter & Gamble.
As part of our continual process improvement, AERI constantly seeks the input of equestrians in the US and abroad to keep us focused on providing the most practical and effective design solutions to the most frequently encountered limb ailments. We reach out to riders, trainers, owners, grooms, veterinarians, and many other participants in the equine industry.
We believe that the combination of input from world-class thought leaders and practitioners, a strong commitment to R&D through both internal and sponsored external research, and our proven design innovation process, positions us well to discover truly novel approaches to lameness originating in the lower limb.
Site visitors are strongly advised to seek the advice of a qualified veterinarian before proceeding with any diagnosis, treatment or therapy.
*National Economic Cost of Equine Lameness, Colic, and Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) in the United States. USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). http://nahms.aphis.usda.gov/equine/equine98/economics.PDF. Posted 2001.
**Equine 2005 Baseline Reference of Equine Health and Management. USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). http://nahms.aphis.usda.gov/equine/index.htm. Posted 2005.
***AERI survey of athletic horse barn operations. 2008.
