Help remove joint supplements from the market that dont work!!!

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em_johners

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Hiya,

I am doing a survey on equine joint supplementation and the public's experience with using them for my dissertation. I think this is a very important area in need of research. There are hundreds of products currently in the market and I want to highlight the products that do work from the products that don't. Then try to isolate the specific ingredients from your results, to work out why the products that do work do!

If guys have any experiences at all with joint supplements, I would be super greatful, if you could complete my quick survey. You will be helping to remove products that don't work from the market.

To complete my Survey please go to the following website:
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/renders...x7m9nttt860195

Thankyou,

Emily Johnson Bsc(hons) Equine Science :)
 
I've completed a questionnaire but have to say I found the questions far too simplistic to answer with any degree of accuracy. You ask if owners have found positive effects in a particular product and if so, what and over what time period. For an ordinary owner, how do you judge no reduction in joint mobility in a horse? What do we use it to compare with for an accurate assessment? You needed to have asked more questions to ascertain WHY owners used it, WHAT CONDITIONS had prompted the purchase, WHAT OUTCOMES (if any) observed AS COMPARED WITH the previous condition. Even so, in my case I used Cosequin to prevent joint deterioration in my veteran horse. He was ok for a veteran before I bought it, as far as I know. He's still ok. How do I judge whether it was effective? No further deterioration may be nothing to do with the supplement. Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
 
Ditto the above. I have found cosequin to have the most reasearch and works effectively however I cannot afford this or justify it for my 6 year old so she has NAF superflex which is working well for her and does the job I need. Just because I have put one answer and not the other doesn't mean I don't rate NAF but that for an arthritic horse or one needed it for joint problems rather than prevention I would choose Cosequin.
 
I agree with both the comments above. I also feel the title of your post means you have already decided in advance what answer you are looking for.
 
I have filled in the questionaire but agree with the above comments, also - what else changed? In my case the mare improved dramaticaly (sticky stifle) after being put on cod liver oil but at the same time as being put on the supplement was also in increasing amounts of work and losing weight both of which may help.
 
Had a look at it but TBH I don't really see the point in answering. I've tried various joint supplements on various horses so I couldn't tell you which was most effective as all horses are different. Also, I don't know whether the joint supplement my horse currently gets actually works as I have no idea what he would be like without it. You also don't take into account other factors - my horse get a joint supp but he also had his joints medicated and several courses of Adequan. So yes, he appears to be more sound since being on the supplement but how much is due to that and how much to the other, expensive, medication?!

I also think your title is rather biased. It seems you are on a crusade against joint supplements? I don't care what joint supps people feed to their horses; if they think it helps then why should anyone else care?!
 
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