cptrayes
Well-Known Member
Rooney and Bowker have shown that navicular bone damage is always associated with tendon damage inside the foot, but that tendon damage is often present without bone damage. So it looks very like the tendon damage that causes the bone damage and therefore clear x-rays are precious little use as a diagnostic tool.
Rooney and Bowker and now dozens of other people have also shown almost 100% success in returning "end of the line" cases to full work, hunting and jumping, by going barefoot with the correct feed and management (trim being only about 10% of the story).
Whatever your vet and farrier may say, there is no point in shooting a navicular horse before you have tried a barefoot rehab, unless you want rid of the problem quickly and want to claim on the insurance if you do not have 100% loss of use cover. There are plenty of us around the country now who will willingly take on and rehabilitate your "useless" horse and go hunting and jumping on it once we've done that.
Rooney and Bowker and now dozens of other people have also shown almost 100% success in returning "end of the line" cases to full work, hunting and jumping, by going barefoot with the correct feed and management (trim being only about 10% of the story).
Whatever your vet and farrier may say, there is no point in shooting a navicular horse before you have tried a barefoot rehab, unless you want rid of the problem quickly and want to claim on the insurance if you do not have 100% loss of use cover. There are plenty of us around the country now who will willingly take on and rehabilitate your "useless" horse and go hunting and jumping on it once we've done that.