Our Philosophy

Our practice philosophy rests on the cornerstones of preventive care, education, a "total health" approach, and commitment to excellence.

Preventive Care

We pride ourselves on providing excellent care of your equine family members for a long time. It is more sensible to PREVENT pain, injuries, illness, and lameness as much as possible throughout a horse's life. From a financial standpoint, it's also more cost-effective to keep your horse healthy, happy, and sound, than it is to react to an issue that needs to be resolved.

Education

We are committed to providing top quality opportunities for educating our local equestrian community: children and adults; riders, trainers, breeders, and barn managers; enthusiasts and owners. Through educational seminars on client-selected topics, summer camp programs, barn clinics, equestrian organization presentations, publishing of timely news, maintaining a database of equine care articles, and our sponsorship of other educational opportunities such as the Loudoun County Fair and the Rutledge Farm Sessions, we show our dedication to this critical cornerstone of our practice. Our commitment to education goes further than just equestrians, we also volunteer countless hours to mentoring NOVA vet tech students and high school students interested in equine and veterinary medicine.

Our dedication to education doesn't end there. Internally, the TEVA medical team continues to educate themselves on best practices, latest technology, recent scientific research, experimental therapies, and more while the administrative team strives to consistently improve the client experience through participating in a variety of classes and training opportunities on best practices of customer service and client account security, ever-changing software protocols, telemedicine triage, and laboratory regulations and recommendations. For us to effectively present the best to our clients, we must be the best versions of ourselves first.

Total Health Approach

What is a total health approach? Total Equine Veterinary Associates was founded on the concept that successful care of a horse, including preventive care, maintenance of chronic illness, and acute treatment of injury is an extremely complex and highly cooperative effort among the owner, the lessee, the rider, the farrier, the groom, the trainer, the transporter, veterinary specialists, and the attending veterinarian. Every horse has a team of people who want what's best, but everyone doesn't always agree what that path may look like. Our "Total Health" approach to horse care takes in to consideration all factors of a treatment situation: client budget, trainer's schedule, rider's discipline, prognosis to return full health, and maintenance care. It's our priority to serve the health and medical needs of the horse, while considering the total health approach of all parties involved with the horse's care plan.

Commitment to Excellence

Quite simply, we're committed to excellence. Excellence in everything we do, and everything we are. We learn. We progress. We grow. We become the best that we can be so we can continue to do the work that we love in a community where our roots run deep. Our commitment to quality equine and client care grows stronger by the minute.