Navicular + Tripping?

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My boy was diagnosed with navicular in June. He had navilox and is sound on bute and with remedial shoeing every 6 weeks.

I've noticed over the last few weeks he has been tripping alot. I rode him for about 15 mins yesterday and he must have tripped 5 or 6 times and twice it was a real ahh hes going to go down moment!!

Has anyone else had this with navicular and know of anything which could help?
 
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Just wondering what type of shoes your horse has on? Maybe talk to farrier.
Personally my horse was diagnosed with navic she is a tb and was already very handy at removing normal shoes ( practically lived in over reach boots) so I went down the barefoot route. Not plain sailing but defo no tripping and her feet just get better and better. Her length of stride also improved.
 
How was navicular disease diagnosed has your horse got changes to the navicular bone or the soft tissues attaching to the navicular bone. Horses that have foot pain do tend to be a bit trippy, but there can be other causes for tripping such as the toe being to long, lack of fitness, laziness etc
 
Tripping can be a symptom of navicular so you need to speak to your vet and farrier, if he's only just started tripping then it might be that he's getting worse. Personally i;m with Bruce, my TB was diagnosed 3 years ago, we took him barefoot and he's fine now.
 
Yup, the tripping is due to the foot being underrun and the toe long and too far forward. It is like a human wearing flippers, we'd trip too. Shoes off and a good barefoot trim is what such a foot needs to correct it.
 
Sorry to bore, but I agree barefoot works for mine too. Not quick solution but certainly worth trying. I wish I had gone with gut feeling sooner when mine was diagnosed we had Navalox and Tildren before I knew enough was enough and took shoes off, never looked back.
 
I'm another for take the shoes off. Horses very often stop tripping almost immediately the shoes are off, whether they are "navicular" horses or not. The horse with navicular syndrome whose shoes I took off in late February came sound at ten weeks drug free and has been sound ever since with a full workload including jumping. Please make sure that you get his diet right (high fibre, low carbohydrate especially molasses and green grass grown in full sunlight and frosted grass) and you should find that he will do well without shoes and you can dump the bute as well.
 
Tripping was the reason why I got the vet to a horse I owned a few years ago. After xrayts, nerve blocks etc, sadly the diagnosis was Navicular.
 
Thanks everyone really gives me something to think about, hopefully a solution if it is the nav causing it. I've got the vet coming at the end of the month so will have a chat with her and my farrier. :) Before he was diagnosed with navicular he only had front shoes on and before that he had been barefoot, so he could cope without shoes.

Vicky - hes got eggbars on the front and normal shoes on the back

Sizz - It's changes to the navicular bone.

Thank you. :)
 
I think tripping is an effect of the navicular most probably.

I havent read all the replies but you really should look in to the barefoot route. My horse has navicular and had remedial farriery, box rest, steriod injections, navilox, tildren and nothing worked.

He is due to come back from Rockley Farm at the end of this month and is back in work again after nearly two years, its unbelievable and i would recomend anyone to give it a try. He was 5/10ths lame and my vet didnt think he would make it through the summer, let alone ever be ridden again. x
 
Just wanted to let you chaps know out there that I bought a horse at 12 and at 13 diagnosed with Navicular which due to some intial drugs and going barefoot he lived a ripe old age of 24 and only reason put him down was due to the navicular as he had got some arthritus in there due to the shorter steps he took. He did trip alot to start with and the transition took about 4 weeks to go barefoot but just took it steady on lots of surfaces and once his toe was shortened and his heels came up his pain reduced significantly. I also detoxed his liver and put him on no bute when he was in pain as bute can leave boney lumps on their lower limbs. I did also give him a course of a really thick drug in a paste cannot think what it is called now was over 15 years ago but it was a vassal dialator which expanded all his blood vessels to get oxygen to his navicular bone - as xrays showed a thinning - that was blinding the change was very significant but £54 a pot so had a limit and gave him 12 months of this but would put hand on heart and say that this gave him a massive life extension!! Also helped when avoided hard surfaces and frosty ground - he was never totally sound if you looked hard enough but we had some fantastic years and he was such a good boy even through the odd excited buck in!! He was an IDX and vet said at time it was a TB rather than a native desease but have seen allsorts get it - but good news is it is managable!

Hope the post helps anyone - I honestly tried the lot - shoes, wedges, back to front shoes, balance shoes, mac boots magnetic boots so if anyone wants to chat be my guest.
 
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