![]() Rood and Riddle recently held a conference where Tildren and Osphos were discussed.Some of these seem to help, some don’t, but your horse eventually is lame consistently and you can’t seem to help him.įirst, let’s get a few things out of the way…. You inject with Tildren or Osphos, because that’s “for navicular.” You start isoxsuprine to “increase circulation,” and maybe even add in some previcox for pain. “Take the strain off the navicular bone,” they say. So you try bar shoes, or even add wedges. After all, that’s what we’ve heard, right? You’re likely freaking out, wondering how to keep your horse the most comfortable before this terrible “degenerative disease” takes over. Your horse has “navicular disease” (most commonly used to refer to x-ray changes seen on the navicular bone), or “navicular syndrome” (no radiographic changes present). And MRIs can give you a lot of information you wouldn’t otherwise have, and information isn’t a bad thing!!! Just make sure that you don’t start to fixate on this information, and end up missing the forest for the trees, so to speak. ![]() Radiographs can help with showing progress or change in the hoof and a baseline. At least we will know with a PDN if the pain is in the hoof and not higher up. This all being said, I still think that these diagnostics can be very valuable. It seems, he concluded, the soft tissue damage leads to the bone damage, and often, this soft tissue damage comes from toe first landings ( Pete Ramey, 2005). James Rooney found that a horse can have soft tissue damage without bone damage, but never found a case where a horse had bone damage without soft tissue damage. Who is to say that what we find on an MRI is the ACTUAL source of pain? Not to mention, the hoof has what feels like an infinite number of structures that can be affected. As humans, if a doctor performed an MRI on us and pointed out some pathology on the results, we can look at it and say “well, yeah, but my back doesn’t hurt there.” A horse doesn’t have this advantage of such clear communication. Old injuries, new injuries, what’s causing pain, what isn’t causing pain… you get my drift.
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