Pixie Dust???

Sounds like the answer to all our prayers doesn't it? No more "no foot, no horse", we can just grow a new one!
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I read the article and thought it sounds just like the ACell treatment we have used on tendon injuries for some of our horses, so I had a quick look, and I do think it's the same thing.
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http://www.acell.com/vet.php
I am, however, very skeptical about it having the ability to regrow whole limbs, including fingernails, bone etc, and to be fair the article doesn't actually say how much of his finger the guy lost.
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If it literally was the tip, then I can well imagine that it works.
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Hi faerie666

So glad I saw your post....we have a 6 yr old gelding who has a 6o% injury to his suspensory ligament and are trying to get our vet to look at ACell for him...it isn't a core lesion so we can't use actual stemcell but the ACell company told us by email that their product may work for him.

What has been your success rate? Can you tell me more? We love this big boy and want to do the best we can for him, but at 17h2" of hot warmblood, he'll never be a happy hacker and is miserable if he isn't the apple of his mum's eye and being her star.... need to get him back to schooling if we can!

Would love any feedback on this...
 
Hi, and welcome to the forum
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We have only used it for SDFT injuries, so I can really say how it would work for suspensories, but it could well be worth a try for your horse.
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Be prepared for a lot of hard work during the rehab period though, lots of walking in hand (horsewalker if you've got one), cold hosing, bandaging etc and you can't rush it either.
The success rate we had was actually very good, all the horses we have used it on have come back into full work, however, one of them had 2 serious tendon injuries before we used the ACell, and he broke down again first time he raced after the treatment.
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but to be fair we think he just had naturally weak tendons, and the previous injuries couldn't have helped either
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It is also quite an expensive treatment, and as with everything there is a chance it won't work, but from your post I take it you think the horse is worth trying it for, and if you're not planning on doing much jumping, if any, there should be a reasonable chance of him coming right.
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Well, faerie666, many thanks for the reply.

Bigboy is bred solely for dressage although his grandad went to the Olympics for both dressage and showjumping. As for racing, to be honest he doesn't even know that there is such a thing as galloping!!!!
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Frankly he wil be useless as a companion as he is very high maintenance [not foodwise though, as he balloons on air] and couldn't live out. So the only option left is get him back to some level of work or have an extremely expensive lawnmower.

Unfortunately the insurance won't cover any treatment to his hind legs due to a previous plantar ligament injury [the day we got him] so it seems to be an even more difficult decision as we will have to pay for it all ourselves. On the other hand, we won't get loss of use for him either, for the same reason.

When we discussed this with our vet, he seemed to think that the ACell was only worth trying in combination with fasciotomy and neurectomy....we could well end up with a relatively sound horse then, but at quite a cost and the question is for how long?
 
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