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About Us
It is our mission to provide high-quality care, innovative therapy options, and rehabilitative modalities to equine athlete. Our services are designed to enhance their quality of life, elevate performance goals, and encourage holistic health overall.
About CORE Therapies
CORE Therapies was founded in 2008 by Larkspur Carroll, DVM. Raised on a boutique thoroughbred breeding farm near Fair Hill MD and daughter of a veterinarian, it was no surprise she was drawn to equine veterinary medicine with a special passion for sports medicine and biomechanics. She then made it her goal to improve equine health and wellbeing through noninvasive, therapeutic and comprehensive ways.
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Dr. Carroll spent her early career as a thoroughbred racetrack practitioner, adding manual therapies and other holistic techniques to her sports medicinal knowledge. On top of the years of intuition she built while galloping racehorses, a novel program to support horses within multiple disciplines began to surface; CORE Therapies was born.
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But any successful person knows, it takes a village to carry out and support any remarkable vision. That being said, a network of connected goals and relationships makes up our dream team! Between the veterinarians, our rockstar executive assistant, and our powerhouse bookkeeper, we proudly provide comprehensive, efficient, detail oriented sessions with innovative techniques and follow up. These concepts have expanded to our newest facility and an equally great team at AppleRidge Farm LLC.
Our Providers
Larkspur Carroll, DVM, CAC, CVA, CERP
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Raised on a thoroughbred breeding farm in Fair Hill, Maryland, Lark frequented the training center and Delaware Park in various capacities throughout her childhood, eventually galloping horses pre-dawn before school. Her father, Del Carroll was a famous thoroughbred trainer and hall-of-fame polo player. Her mother a veterinarian, turned trainer after Del Carroll’s untimely death. Both the Dam and Sire sides of her pedigree are steeped in thoroughbreds, so it’s no wonder her zen is on the back of these revered athletes.
Larkspur set her sights high, graduating Magna cum laude with a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland College Park, and then a veterinary degree from The Ohio State University, subsidizing her education and her passions simultaneously by exercising horses every single morning. This habit continued into her veterinary career, which started with an internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
Unsurprisingly, Larkspur fell in love with Kentucky and the local thoroughbred industry. She immediately felt a sense of belonging, circling back to her roots and Keeneland, where her father raced many successful meets. Now she is fully settled in the area, owning her own farm and veterinary practice.
The veterinary practice embodies many of her passions: the equine athlete, sports medicine, alternative medicine, and physical therapy techniques. But at the beginning and end and sometimes in between, Lark can be found horseback one way or another. There’s no greater connection than the nonverbal dance between a rider with a thousand-pound athlete, because “horses do speak, but only to those who listen.”
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Credentials
- Undergraduate: University of Maryland (College Park) - Biological Sciences and Zoology
- Veterinary School: The Ohio State
- Internship: Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital ambulatory in Lexington KY
_Veterinary licensure in KY, SC, NY, LA
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Other Accomplishments
- Mother of a fabulous teenage daughter
- Owner/Operator of AppleRidge Farm in Salvisa, KY
Laura Wodzinski, DVM, cVMA
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Dr. Laura Wodzinski was born and raised in western Pennsylvania where she was introduced to the equine world at an early age with horseback riding lessons. Her love and passion for horses grew as she became a competitive eventer in high school and joined the Penn State Dressage Team in college. It became her goal to pursue veterinary medicine so that she could work with horses every day and provide care and comfort to the animal she had become so devoted to.
With an undergraduate degree in Animal Sciences from the Pennsylvania State University and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Wodzinski achieved that goal. She then did an equine exclusive internship in New Hampshire at New England Equine Medical and Surgical Center.
During her years of education, Dr. Wodzinski became interested in alternative therapies including acupuncture and chiropractic therapies. As she watched her own dogs and horses age and start to struggle with the effects of arthritis and other musculoskeletal issues, she knew she wanted to provide them as much comfort as possible as they enter their golden years as well as help horses perform at their prime in the show ring.
In 2016, Dr. Wodzinski received her certification in veterinary medical acupuncture (cVMA) from the Medical Acupuncture for Veterinarians. Two years later, she earned her certificate in animal chiropractics from the renowned Options for Animals College of Animal Chiropractic. She has primarily worked as an equine exclusive veterinarian, however in 2020 she diversified her patient population to start including cats and dogs.
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Credentials:
- Undergraduate degree- Pennsylvania State University
- Veterinary School- Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine
- Internship- New England Equine Medical and Surgical Center
Tiffany Gish, Executive Asisstant​
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Tiffany couldn't have known that her life would be forever changed after that first riding lesson at age seven in small-town Rockport, IN. She's pursued a life in support of the horse ever since.
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Following her love of horses brought her to Murray State University, where she pursued a degree and she discovered her love for animal anatomy. During her time, she took an Equine reproduction class, her major was changed, and the rest was history.
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From managing an equine feed store to caring for new mothers and babies at an equine nursery, we are grateful that Tiffany's love of the horse has brought her journey to us. She patiently helps new clients to learn about how therapy can help their animals and provides much-needed hands-on support to our staff.
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Credentials
-Bachelors Degree of Science in Equine Science with minor in Veterinary Medicine at Murray State University
Tanya Lobsiger, Bookkeeper
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From a young age, Thoroughbreds have been an integral part of Tanya’s life. She got a taste for racing and training on her family’s horse farm in Huntington, Quebec, Canada. Ultimately she moved to Lexington, Kentucky to complete her Bachelor of Science in Biology at Midway University.
From there, she worked in the industry as groom, assistant farm manager, and veterinary technician until she started Shady Lane Farm and Racing in Versailles, Kentucky.
She joined the CORE Therapies team in 2017, when she chose to refocus her attention on to her family. Still busy as ever, she lives on Shady Lane farm with her partner and children (Victoria, Kaitlyn, and Aiden), as well as their variety of cats, dogs, and horses.