Michael Porter, Equine Veterinarian

A mobile, equine veterinary specialist that's focused on treating the performance horse and providing advanced prepurchase exams in Florida and southern Georgia. Dr. Porter provides lameness exams on horses including digital radiography and ultrasound. Lameness-related therapies include PRP, IRAP, shockwave,and stem cell treatments. In addition, Dr. Porter's specialty allows him to examine horses for chronic weight loss, colic, cough, and neurologic symptoms.

Monday, September 30, 2019

Signs of Hock Problems in Your Horse

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Noticing your horse isn't bringing their back legs under them like they use to? Not getting quite as must spring off the ground when app...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Preventing Colic in Horses

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Colic. It's one word that strikes fear in most horse owners — and for good reason! A horse with no outward signs of distress can find ...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Chronic Arytenoid Chondritis in a Horse

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A twenty year-old quarterhorse gelding presented to PHD veterinary services for a complaint of chronic coughing and exercise intolerance. Th...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

PHD Veterinary Services New Van!!

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After driving 333000 miles in 5 years, the original PHD veterinary services van died in Orlando. Five weeks later, the new and improved van ...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Equine Ophthalmologist: Dr. Brenden Mangen

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When it comes to examining and treating equine ocular disease, there is no substitute for a veterinary ophthalmologist. Until recently, this...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Subcutaneous Pythiosis in a Horse

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.A 10 year-old warmblood gelding presented to PHD veterinary services for the complaint of a swollen left front fetlock that was associated ...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Severe Navicular Disease in a Horse

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. .A 10 year-old thoroughbred gelding presented to PHD veterinary services for the complaint of intermittent forelimb lameness. The gelding...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Ionophore-free Horse Feed Mills

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The two bags of horse feed shown below were produced in IONOPHORE-FREE mills!! Why is this important??  In the past year there has been at...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Proximal Suspensory Desmitis in a Horse

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A 10 year-old warm-blood gelding presented to PHD veterinary services for the complaint of forelimb lameness. During the lameness exam, it w...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Eye Lid Tumor in a Donkey

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A 2 year-old female donkey presented to PHD Veterinary services for the complaint of multiple tumors surrounding the left and right eye. The...
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Michael Porter DVM
I was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1970 and moved to Miami, Florida when I was 7 years old. After high school, I earned my bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia and my graduate degrees from the University of Florida. After graduating from graduate school, I specialized in Large Animal Internal Medicine and subsequently developed the Mobile Equine Diagnostic Service at the University of Florida. Currently, I am the owner of PHD Veterinary Services which provides advanced treatment and diagnostics to equine patients in north central Florida and southern Georgia.
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