navicular syndrome

I use magentic boots for arthritic knees and navicular is oesteoarthritis. I also know a friend who's horse had navicular and she uses them but vet injected her horse with tildren and combinedwith good corrective farriery to lift the feet up and allow the blood flow to increase to the joint he is sound.

Have you tried any injections or herbal mixes? I was not given option of injections just bute but my horse is sound now on herbs alone.

The tildren may need topped uop but be careful as can only do it so many times then it loses its effectiveness. If you google it you will find out about it in more detail xx
 
From MRI scans and dead horse dissections and research, navicular syndrome is now known not to be osteoarthritis. It is usually damage to the deep digital flexor tendon in the foot, sometimes the collateral or impar ligaments. Damage to the bone comes later.

The reason that your friend's wedges brought her horse sound is probably because lifting the heels put slack into the ddft. She will be lucky if he stays sound, they are a bandage, not a treatment.

Magnetic therapy increases the blood supply to the area treated. The best way to increase the blood going into a horse's foot is to take the shoe off it.
 
I have a 7yo diagnosed with navicular three months ago (xrays confirmed bilateral changes of navicular bones). He's been on Navilox and I've put magnetic overreach boots on for 4 hours per day and from being bilaterally hopping lame, he is now just slightly lame on one foot and back in walk and trot work. Maybe the magnets have been beneficial? This is my first horse with navicular so I don't know if the Navilox on it's own would have had the same results so quickly
 
As cptrayes says magnetics will not help navicular syndrome. Navicular syndrome tends to refer to minor changes of the navicular bone suspected to be caused by related soft tissue damage. Unfortunately whilst steriod injections in to the joint will help deal with the side effects they do not treat the initial injury.
However, from my understanding what most people think of when vets say navicular (i.e. arthritic changes to the navicular bone) does still occur but is mainly found in elderly horses. Young horses very rarely have changes to the navicular bone without soft tissue damage.
So in short whilst magnetics will do no harm, don't expect them to be a miracle cure.
 
cptrayes said:
From MRI scans and dead horse dissections and research, navicular syndrome is now known not to be osteoarthritis. It is usually damage to the deep digital flexor tendon in the foot, sometimes the collateral or impar ligaments. Damage to the bone comes later.

The reason that your friend's wedges brought her horse sound is probably because lifting the heels put slack into the ddft. She will be lucky if he stays sound, they are a bandage, not a treatment.

Magnetic therapy increases the blood supply to the area treated. The best way to increase the blood going into a horse's foot is to take the shoe off it.
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Odd that so many top vets still refer to it as so then...........my friend is not having wedges as such as has tried them before and did not work and while going barefoot is the best option some horses (like mine and hers) can not go barefoot as foot is weak and would fall apart and in her case horse's heels would be on the ground.

The magnetic boots she is using are to increase the blood flow to the area treated with the tildren injection and in my mind it is good to try anything that may work as not doing any harm!

When the initial injury was untreated then it seems the best option is to treat it with steroid injections or are there other options??
 
"Odd that so many top vets still refer to it as so then......."

Isn't it just? It's one of the reasons that I often seem so critical of vets. If we can find the research, why can't they? If we can bring horses that have had adequan, tildren, hyaluronic acid and bar shoes and are still unsound back to full work drug free, why can't they?

"some horses (like mine and hers) can not go barefoot as foot is weak and would fall apart"

No it wouldn't. If their diet is correct their feet will rebuild themselves much stronger, and in a surprisingly short space of time. They will not fall apart. Farriers may tell you that they will, as mine told me about the first horse I did. He was a horse who had to be shod one front foot at a time because he could not stand with both front shoes off. They were wrong, he rebuilt his feet and ten months later completed his first barefoot affiliated Novice BE event.
 
cptrayes said:
"Odd that so many top vets still refer to it as so then......."

Isn't it just? It's one of the reasons that I often seem so critical of vets. If we can find the research, why can't they? If we can bring horses that have had adequan, tildren, hyaluronic acid and bar shoes and are still unsound back to full work drug free, why can't they?

"some horses (like mine and hers) can not go barefoot as foot is weak and would fall apart"

No it wouldn't. If their diet is correct their feet will rebuild themselves much stronger, and in a surprisingly short space of time. They will not fall apart. Farriers may tell you that they will, as mine told me about the first horse I did. He was a horse who had to be shod one front foot at a time because he could not stand with both front shoes off. They were wrong, he rebuilt his feet and ten months later completed his first barefoot affiliated Novice BE event.
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i TRUST you are not referring to my comment a while ago about my horse's feet, it seems very familiar, if not apologies , if you are get off my back and let me be!! anyway, i have the farrier to ring for shoeing.
 
I believe Cptrayes was directly quoting the previous poster (mja).

Perhaps reading all the posts would help you to keep track?
 
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