Recognizing Pain in Horses

Pain identification tool for horses

"There are still many challenges in identifying pain in horses. We are working to spread the knowledge so that horse owners and professionals can get help in identifying and locating pain in horses. This way, horse can also get help more quickly on various wellbeing challenges."

- Mervi Pakola
a horse trainer and rehabilitator

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EQUINE PAIN FINDER WAS DESIGNED TO

Identify pain behaviour
It helps you identify behaviour indicating pain or discomfort in your horse. So that you can help your horse as soon as possible and you don’t have to ponder if it’s pain on not. You get a report from the Equine Pain Finder, which tells you if there is reason to suspect pain or not.
Help localize pain
From Equine Pain Finder you get a list of your own horse’s behaviour indicating pain or discomfort. This comprehensive and clear list is useful to you and the veterinarian when localizing the reason for the behaviour.
Teach you
Equine Pain Finder teaches you to observe your horse’s behaviour more. You learn to understand better, what the horse is telling you. Gait analysing part teaches you to be better at detecting lameness and other errors in your horse’s movement.

Try it for free!

Explore the Equine Pain Finder tool and learn the basics of identifying pain in horses. You can take a free pain assessment of your horse. As a full member, you get access to all sections of the Equine Pain Finder tool.

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Membership

Level 1
Check out the tool Equine Pain Finder and learn the basics of identifying pain in a horse. Do a free evaluation of the horse's pain expression.
Level 2
Recognize pain better. You get access to all sections of the Equine Pain Finder tool.
Level 3
Deepen your knowledge with the help of an extensive video library. In addition to the Equine Pain Finder, you also have a wide range of expert lectures.

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