BCVTA Webinar – Pain Management in the Field

This session will review how to recognize signs of pain in animals such as sheep, goats, cows, and horses. We will discuss how to recognize pain, and what options we have to treat it in the field. Erica will discuss some alternative therapies for pain management of equine, but can be transferred to different species when appropriate.

Speakers: 

Erica Gray-Gowans, RVT, CERP

I have been an RVT and member of the BCVTA for over 19 years, I graduated from TRU in 2005.  I am also a Certified Equine Rehabilitaion Practitioner, I received my certification through the university of Tennessee in 2023.  I have my own equine rehabilitation mobile business, called Deanfield Equine Rehabilitation Services.   Some of the services I provide are therapeutic exercise plans, laser therapy, kinesiology taping, fascial release, targeted pulsed electromagnetic therapy and transcuteaneal nerve stimulation therapy.  I live on a working beef cattle ranch with my husband Jordan and our two sons, Wyatt and Colton.  We have 12 horses on the ranch in various stages of life and working that are happy to be willing patients.

Leanne Hillis-Schmidt, RVT

Leanne graduated from Lakeland College in 2004 as an RVT and has worked in small and mixed animal practice since. She has been involved in the Canadian Dairy Industry for over 25 years and helped her parents with a successful sheep operation until they sold their herd. Currently, Leanne is a Sessional Instructor with Thompson Rivers University where she teaches in the Veterinary Technology program. When not teaching, she works as a Facilities Inspector with the College of Veterinarians of British Columbia.