Testimonials

My thoroughbred's wounds and how EMT Gel helped mend them.

I have been surprised and very pleased with the performance of EMT Gel wound care product.

I have a 7 year old thoroughbred gelding (from Monty Robert's Flag-Is-Up Farm) who was horribly injured in the May 3rd, 1999 tornado that struck Oklahoma City. It was estimated to be a F5 when it hit the stable where I kept my 3 horses. The stable only lost 2 of the 22 horses during that night, and those 2 were part of the 4 horses in my TB's barn. The stable had 3 barns, 2 of which were destroyed, but still had some structure remaining (concrete block walls remained one block high in some areas). The remaining barn was completely leveled, not a trace remained. One surviving horse was found 1/2 mile south of the barn, the other 1/2 mile north.

My TB, Olé Toledo, was the horse found north of the barn. His injuries were too numerous to list, but the major ones involved 2 crushed thoracic vertebrae, severed tendons, punctures clear through his hindquarters, impaled objects, and all 4 legs were de-skinned clear to the bone in at least one area. In spite of all this, he was still standing, and able to load into a trailer to get to the vet. My other 2 horses were also badly injured and required surgery, but their injuries healed within 6 months.

One could ask why we didn't just put him down. But if you ever have the pleasure to own a horse like him, you would know why we didn't. Olé never gave up on us, so we didn't give up on him. He met us at his stall door everyday, ready to go out and eat grass and exercise. He dropped from 1400 lbs (he is 17HH) to almost 1000 lbs due to infection, but that never slowed his spirit.

Olé has gone through close to a dozen surgeries in the past 2 years with thousands of dollars spent to return him to a condition where he can once again be ridden. Many of these surgeries have been due to problems with skin grafts that were done to cover his bare legs. On December 19, 2000 another sore developed in the skin graft area of his right hind leg. We began treating it as usual with rotations of Panalog, Betadine/table sugar poultice, and lots of wrapping. We usually have a 60/40 chance of this curing his sores, but this one continued to reapprear every time we stopped the treatment.

In late March 2001, I saw an ad for EMT Gel in Equus magazine. I checked the website shown in the ad and decided to give EMT Gel a shot. By this time, the sore had grown to 3" x 1", and we had Ole' scheduled for another surgery on Tuesday, April 17th.

Seven to ten days after applying EMT Gel twice daily, the sore shrank to less than 1" x 1/2", and has since had a nice, healthy line of skin closing in on it. I do want to mention that these are not infected sores; they basically are caused by ingrown hair from the skin grafts that just go wild since there really isn't a "normal" bed of skin there. They are just moist, crusty granulated beds that persist for months....until now!

Finally, on April 17, the vet examined Olé and said "This horse doesn't need surgery." Without the EMT Gel I am convinced we would not have had this good news. The only bad news is I've got a whole shelf full of wound dressings and remedies that I'll probably never use.

Debra Schuessler
Sedgwick, KS