Routine Services

Paragon Veterinary Group offer the following routine equine services:-

• Routine health checks

  • Liz Jackson with an example of an Equine Health Plan

    Equine health plans 
  • Passport, identification & microchipping
  • Worming programmes and worm egg counts
• Vaccinating your horse
• Pre-purchase vettings
• Lameness examination
  • Digital radiography
  • Tendon scanning
  • Laminitis
• Dental work
  • Routine teeth rasping
  • Molar extractions
  • Wolf teeth extractions 
• Fertility work

  • Nerve block injection

    Pregnancy scanning
  • AI with chilled or frozen semen
  • Fertility Assessments
• Ophthalmology
  • Corneal ulcerations
  • Lacerations
  • Intraocular foreign bodies 
     
• Wound treatment including skin grafting
• Shock Wave Therapy
• Routine surgical treatment
  • Castrations
  • Treatment of sarcoids

  • Performing a fertility examination at Newbiggin

    Treatment of rigs 
  • Correction of limbs in foals
• Investigation of respiratory problems
  • Endoscopy (scoping)
  • Tracheal washes and BAL
• Investigation of weight loss, chronic colic or hepatic disease
• Echocardiography and ECG
• Assessment of skin problems
• Neurological problems
• Laboratory investigation
• Investigation and treatment of sick foals
• Official JMB measurements
• Referral Consultants
  • Orthopaedics: Cedric Chan a referral surgeon regularly attends the Townhead Surgery to carry out surgical operations and complex examination.
  • Medicine: Rachael Conwell will travel to the practice to carry out gastroscopy and specialist medicine investigations.