A wealth of new scientific evidence and good clinical results are making biological therapies the treatment du jour for horses suffering from osteoarthritis.

Watching your equine companion suffer from the pain associated with osteoarthritis can be difficult to witness and, until recently, nearly impossible to fully alleviate. But across the country, veterinarians are working to make that conundrum a bit simpler through research into the most cutting edge biological therapies, including cultured stem cells and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist protein, or IRAP.