Recent content by Dan Brown

Did your horse have an MRI? If not, you may be dealing with something other than purely navicular bone pain. If there is pain from a soft tissue source, OsPhos is unlikely to help. If you don't know exactly what is causing the lameness, you can't know exactly what treatment is needed. You...

Hi OP You have had some great advice on this thread so far, but there is a limit to what anyone can recommend without a solid diagnosis. The foot is a very complex structure and a lot of things within it can cause pain, and hence, lameness. There are about 15 different diagnoses for a horse...

Which really goes to show that without the proper diagnostics it is impossible to know what the problem really is.

You are absolutely correct. Navicular Syndrome is not really a diagnosis. It means 'foot pain' but does not specify the cause. It is similar to the term Colic, in that it tells you where the pain is, but gives no useful guidance as to how to treat it. X-rays are useful for looking at the bony...

Thanks, Bernster. If you go with the option of treating without a diagnosis, it's a bit of a gamble. You absolutely could get lucky, the horse comes sound quickly with a minimal bill and everyone is, of course, happy. Much of the time a vet will give this option a chnace initially as it makes...

MRI is amazing for finding things that other 'normal' diagnostics such as x-ray and ultrasound can miss. They may miss them because of what they are (eg. bone bruises can only be seen by MRI), where they are (eg. ultrasound cannot pass through the hoof wall) or something else (eg. to see a...