Ringbone & Xrays/treatment

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arwenplusone

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My mare was diagnosed with ringbone last week
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She wasn't lame at all at the time so I had decided just to monitor her & see if she went lame as I brought her back into work (she has a foal at foot).

Anyway, this evening she was quite badly lame.
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My next step I suppose is to have her x-rayed but what will this tell me? (other than the extent of the problem). Also, any idea of cost?
Am tempted to just retire her or keep her as a broodmare so is it worth having the x rays done or should I just manage the condition?
thanks
 
Sorry to hear about your mare. Ring bone can be managed with remedial farriery, cortaflex and intermittent use of Danilon. My horse was thought to have ring bone, but an x-ray showed side bone instead and medial lateral foot imbalance.

He had farriery and special shoes and he is now sound. He was intermittently lame, sometimes almost on 3 legs.

So it will be worth having an x-ray to see what the problem is and take things from there.
 
thanks. wil have to wait til foal is weaned I think but looks as if I will have to have the xrays. It is definitely ringbone as is up near the pastern joint/sesamoids
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I so hope it isnt for you.

J was complaining strongly when the vet flexed and manipulated his pastern and fetlock, he was in a lot of pain which is what led the vet to the diagnosis of high and low ring bone and possible navicular.

My fingers crossed for you.

Is it the lovely mare with the foal in your siggy?

How is your wrist getting on?
 
Yeah, my big dark bay mare in the siggy - she's only 12.

I actually hadn't thought but I can do flexion tests myself so will see how she goes - wierdly it is in her hind legs.

Wrist is healing ok, thanks
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just want the stupid cast taken off now! 2 more weeks...
 
my mare has ringbone in both ehr front feet - coffin joints and in her fetlocks. she was retired at the grand old age of 10
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she was on and off lame for a couple of years before that but put it down to the ground. she has had about 3 sets of exrays now ( i think they cost about £100 each set?) she had all the treatment she could get from the vets, pain killers, joint supplements, remedial farriery. nothing worked. she was retired and put in foal. then when it came to weaning she was to be pts as the lameness was now a major issue and the best thing was the kindest thing. but my friend asked if she could try natural barefoot with her. Long shot is she is now out of retirement, back jumoping (not back to as she was but thats cos of my time as i now have a youngster to bring on, her, her 2yo daughter and mums pony)
 
Hen has it in his off hind. He was never significantly lame (the vet made him trot up hundreds of times before he noticed it!) and x-rays showed a tiny bony change, so small the vet had to x-ray the other leg to make sure it wasn't just the way his leg was!
He has had two steriod injections, but (frantically touches wood) it seems to have settled down now, been well over a year since he was last injected!! He is on NAF superflex and in regular work, jumps, hunts, events etc. I avoid hard ground and make sure he is properly warmed up. My farrier is also a saint!!
He has no noticable lumps whatsoever! Although on his other hind leg his has a lump the size of an apple on his pastern joint (directly on the front joint!) which has never caused him a days lameness, so has never been investigated (vets have looked at it, but saw no reason to poke about!)
 
Glad your arm is improving Arwen, not long to go now. It will feel stiff and a bit achey once the cast is off due to muscle wasting. It will improve with time and use.

Reading the other posts, I do not think you should give up on your lovely mare just yet. She is gorgeous, young and it is unusual to have ring bone in the hinglegs.

I would get x-rays and take things from there. Fingers crossed for you both.
 
If it is high articulating ringbone - then once the joint fuses she sound become sound (like horses with spavin). If it is non-articulating then with some anti-inflammatories it sound settle down. It's low articulating ringbone that has the poorest prognosis.
I'd have the xray so that you know what you're dealing with - and the degree of fusion present.
 
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