Health & Education
We all want the best care possible for our horses. The Heath & Education section covers both Learning Institutions, Organizations as well as many sources for equine assistance including Veterinarians and Farriers.
For those who want a to formally study horses, the Education section includes College Riding, Equine Studies, and Veterinary Schools. Learn about the wide variety of horses in the Horse Breeds section. Supplements and Treatments Therapy are also included in the section.
Everyone can learn from Fine Art and there are some specialty Museums that might surprise you.
Horses as a therapy partner enrich the lives of the disabled. These facilities are listed in our Therapeutic Riding section. To help children and young adults build confidence and grow emotionally, please see the resources available on the Youth Outreach page.
Looking for a place to keep your horse? You can find it in the Horse Boarding section. Traveling? Find a Shipping company or Horse Sitting service if your horse is staying home!
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![A German Trakehner horse named SongLine relaxes as his acupuncture needles work at the new UF Equine Acupuncture facility. [Alan Youngblood/Staff photographer]](/images/stories/acupuncture/acupuncture003intro.jpg)
by Carlos E. Medina
The new University of Florida Equine Acupuncture Center in northwest Marion County will focus on treatment, education and research of the ancient healing art.
Dr. Huisheng Xie grew up in a family of Chinese herbalists who prescribed custom mixtures of herbs and plants to treat any number of human maladies. But he decided to apply the ancient practice of traditional Chinese medicine to the veterinary field, particularly to horses.
After 35 years practicing acupuncture and refining herbal medicines for animals, the doctor of veterinary medicine and a clinical professor of integrative medicine with the UF Department of Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine, is celebrating the newly opened University of Florida Equine Acupuncture Center in northwest Marion County.
The center, a partnership between Xie and the UF College of Veterinary Medicine, includes a 6,240-square-foot barn with an attached 12,500-square-foot arena. It is located between Irvine and Flemington, on County Road 318.
For Xie, the growing acceptance of traditional Chinese medicine by the West is in stark contrast to what he faced when he started as a professor at the university in 1998.
"When I first started the job at the University of Florida, people talked about acupuncture like it was a joke. Now, over 90 percent of the faculty accepts it and refers cases to us," Xie said.
In the 20 years since he started with the university, a growing number of studies and continued research back the anecdotal benefits of acupuncture.
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