sassyequine
Well-Known Member
I am interested to hear any experience of navicular bursar injury and outcomes?
The short history is that I lost my last 5 year old after two lots of surgery in Oct Last year, bought my new 4 year old warmblood in November and she has since had colic, a serious kick to the head, strangles, a foot abcess and then went lame in both front legs since December. Needless too say I am at my wits end. (she was x rayed all over, scoped and vetted as a potential BYEH when we bought her so everything possible was looked at)
So she had an MRI last week at Newmarket and the diagnosis is not good. She has lesions on both front navicular bursars and more damage to the left deep digatal flexor tendon where it joins the bursar. She is 3/5ths lame on a hard circle, it blocks out at coffin and navicular bursar about 50% and swaps legs with only one block. Clearly very worried as she is four and only had about 2 months of hacking in her short life so the damage is unusual, the theories surround her extrodinary growth in the last 8 months.
The treatment she had there is anti inflammatories injected into both navicular bursar spaces and we gradually bring her into walk and trot work over next 4 weeks then reassess her response to treatment. She also has special shoes, pads and packing on. If she responds we keep going and see at what point she goes lame again, if she doesnt the options are very high risk, relatively new surgery or turning her away for a few months. AFter what we have been through I will probably opt for turn out initially.
The final twist is that x rays last week have also found two areas of kissing spines, mild at the moment but enough to need treament when her feet are fixed.
So if you have experience of navicular bursar damage, treatment, prognosis, good or bad, I would love to hear from you. Right now things feel pretty tough, the only saving grace is she is pretty happy, in great condition and out of pain currently.
Thanks very much.
The short history is that I lost my last 5 year old after two lots of surgery in Oct Last year, bought my new 4 year old warmblood in November and she has since had colic, a serious kick to the head, strangles, a foot abcess and then went lame in both front legs since December. Needless too say I am at my wits end. (she was x rayed all over, scoped and vetted as a potential BYEH when we bought her so everything possible was looked at)
So she had an MRI last week at Newmarket and the diagnosis is not good. She has lesions on both front navicular bursars and more damage to the left deep digatal flexor tendon where it joins the bursar. She is 3/5ths lame on a hard circle, it blocks out at coffin and navicular bursar about 50% and swaps legs with only one block. Clearly very worried as she is four and only had about 2 months of hacking in her short life so the damage is unusual, the theories surround her extrodinary growth in the last 8 months.
The treatment she had there is anti inflammatories injected into both navicular bursar spaces and we gradually bring her into walk and trot work over next 4 weeks then reassess her response to treatment. She also has special shoes, pads and packing on. If she responds we keep going and see at what point she goes lame again, if she doesnt the options are very high risk, relatively new surgery or turning her away for a few months. AFter what we have been through I will probably opt for turn out initially.
The final twist is that x rays last week have also found two areas of kissing spines, mild at the moment but enough to need treament when her feet are fixed.
So if you have experience of navicular bursar damage, treatment, prognosis, good or bad, I would love to hear from you. Right now things feel pretty tough, the only saving grace is she is pretty happy, in great condition and out of pain currently.
Thanks very much.
