Now offering equine rehabilitation services with custom programs designed specifically to meet your horse’s needs.

Mission:

Our mission is to provide exceptional veterinary rehabilitation to equine athletes with a global approach individualized to meet each horse’s unique needs.

What we offer:

Custom rehabilitation programs specific to each horse’s unique needs created and directly monitored by a sports medicine and rehabilitation specialty trained veterinarian. Our programs focus on the primary rehabilitation issues including pain, proprioception, range of motion, flexibility, strength and endurance to target soft tissue and orthopedic injuries, post-operative cases – including abdominal surgery, wounds, conditioning, and more. Our programs incorporate physiotherapy exercises that target core and global strength, injury specific therapeutic modalities and cardiovascular, proprioceptive and resistance exercises that evolve with the progression of your horse.

How we are different:

All the care of your horse is designed and under direct veterinary supervision. Your horse will have a custom and innovative program designed specific to their needs by a veterinarian specialty trained in sports medicine and rehabilitation (board eligible 2025). We will work closely with your veterinarian to ensure your horse receives excellent care and is on the track for recovery.

​

Our Veterinarians:​

 

Dr. Brent Hague, DVM, DACVS

Brent Hague is a native of Oklahoma that received his DVM from Oklahoma State University in 1993. Following graduation he became an associate in an equine practice in central Oklahoma until being
accepted into a surgery residency at Texas A & M. He completed his surgery training and became board certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American Board of Veterinary
Practitioners in 1998.
 

Son of a fourth generation farmer/rancher, Dr. Hague and his wife grew up in northwestern Oklahoma both raised in families supported by raising wheat, alfalfa, and cattle. Dr. Hague and his wife now live on a small farm east of Edmond. He enjoys working with his sons in the hay field and building their cattle operation.

Dr. Hague’s professional interests are sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery, laser surgery, and orthopedics. He enjoys the opportunity to share his experience with fellow equine practitioners by taking part in clinical research, and public speaking. Most recently he has been involved in advances in
amnion tissue as an orthobiologic in horses and small animals.

Dr. Hague and his partner, Mike Major, DVM founded the referral equine surgery practice, Oakridge Equine Hospital, PC, in February 2003. Their goal was to provide clients with the latest technology and expertise available to diagnose and treat the equine athlete. Dr. Hague retired from Oakridge in July
2023 and now enjoys consulting work and spending more time with his family.

​

Dr. Angie Esselman, DVM, MS

Dr. Esselman grew up on a hobby farm in southcentral Minnesota that raised beef cattle and sheep surrounded by corn and hay fields. Both her parents were veterinarians; therefore, she grew up around veterinary medicine, developed a passion for it and never imagined another career path. After the passing of her father, Dr. Esselman caught the horse bug at the age of seven and has raised and owned them ever since. She was very involved in 4-H and FFA showing horses and livestock and as she got older, started showing in the APHA and AQHA all-around events until beginning her residency program.

 

She earned her bachelor’s degree in animal science – equine emphasis with a chemistry minor and honors from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls in three years where she also rode collegiately on the western horse show team. Dr. Esselman followed in the footsteps of both her parents, sister, and brother-law to attend the University of Minnesota – College of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating in 2018, she completed a 1-year internship at Oakridge Equine Hospital in Edmond Oklahoma. Following her internship, she moved to Pilot Point Texas and worked in equine practice at La Mesa Equine Lameness Center for two years prior to transitioning into a collaborative equine sports medicine and rehabilitation residency with Colorado State University and the mobile division of Equine Sports Medicine that services AQHA, APHA and NRHA horse shows across the country. Dr. Esselman’s research projects included prepurchase examinations and stifle disease in western performance horses which she has spoken on at national veterinary conferences.

 

She completed her residency program in July 2024 and was excited to return to and call Oklahoma home. Dr. Esselman enjoys equine orthopedic and rehabilitation cases. In her free time in Colorado during her residency she also earned her private pilot’s license and when she is not working on horses you can find her in the sky or enjoying any other outdoor activities.

​​​

​​

Drs Hague and Esselman will also be seeing routine and new sports medicine and surgery cases. Dr. Hague’s established reputation and experience in equine surgery and sports medicine will continue to serve your equine athlete. Dr. Esselman brings innovative and evidence-based veterinary rehabilitation and sports medicine experience from her recently completed collaborative sports medicine and rehabilitation residency program with Colorado State University and Equine Sports Medicine.

If you are not ready to send your horse to our facility for professional rehabilitation just yet, consultation programs can be designed to fit your at-home needs.

Dr. Hague is taking surgery and sports medicine cases at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater OK, Wheatland Veterinary Clinic in Kingfisher OK or Interstate Equine Hospital in Purcell OK on select days.

Dr. Esselman is taking sports medicine cases at Wheatland Veterinary Clinic in Kingfisher OK or Interstate Equine Hospital in Purcell OK on select days and available on site of Rocking E Stables in Stillwater OK for rehabilitation cases.

Contact us today to find out more about how we can help your equine athlete.