Arthramid ethics

[tb gal]

Arthramid sadly didn't seem to take with my mare but I think it's brilliant. The worst thing humans/animals etc can do as they get older is stop. How many times do you hear about an elderly person fit as a fiddle, having a fall and then deteriorating massively. I'd rather inject a hock and carry on with schooling/hacking to keep the horse supple than stop completely? Plus by taking away the pain in the affected area, the horse can stop compensating elsewhere and causing further issues.

exactly, I have experienced this with my mother - walking 8 miles at weekends with ramblers, walking to shops etc unaided at her own home, moved into sheltered accommodation and doing much less and now seized up with arthritis in the space of a year. Father in law had bad shoulder and was cured by steroid injection. My vet and physio advice was to keep riding my mare but to be sensible so dont expect her to perform the same as 5 year old but dont just leave her standing about - ridden work was recommended to keep those hocks moving.

 

[Birker2020]

exactly, I have experienced this with my mother - walking 8 miles at weekends with ramblers, walking to shops etc unaided at her own home, moved into sheltered accommodation and doing much less and now seized up with arthritis in the space of a year. Father in law had bad shoulder and was cured by steroid injection. My vet and physio advice was to keep riding my mare but to be sensible so dont expect her to perform the same as 5 year old but dont just leave her standing about - ridden work was recommended to keep those hocks moving.

Yes I agree the same. And I have no problem with a horse returning to its original workload once that horse has been treated by a vet and is declared fit to return to whatever activity it was doing before. That is the point of getting your horse treated, to relieve pain and to give you the freedom to do whatever activity you choose so long as the horse is able to cope. Once its not able to cope any longer you drop down the workload, stop jumping or whatever and hack or retire. Its quite simple really.

 

[Sossigpoker]

There did seem to be a bit of a thing for it at one point, maybe not as a preventative as such, but more a ‘let’s see if this helps’ kind of approach. Thankfully that seems to be reducing, in part due to the availability of better support options such as arthramid.

I know some vets who just put steroid into hocks even without x-rays because it's cheap and might help.
Not for me , thanks.

 

[Lexi 123]

Horse don’t have arthritis at 6 many people just inject these young horses as they over jump them all the pros do this . It sounds like the vet was just injecting anything without a xray as they are getting money for it not because the horse actually needs it.

 

[ihatework]

Horse don’t have arthritis at 6 many people just inject these young horses as they over jump them all the pros do this . It sounds like the vet was just injecting anything without a xray as they are getting money for it not because the horse actually needs it

What a font of knowledge you are

 

[Sossigpoker]

Horse don’t have arthritis at 6 many people just inject these young horses as they over jump them all the pros do this . It sounds like the vet was just injecting anything without a xray as they are getting money for it not because the horse actually needs it.

Well mine certainly had arthritis at 6 and not many clients would pay for Arthmid without xrays. Some old school vets do inject steroids without x-rays though.