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Any experiences of the above (articular ringbone)? How is it usually treated?

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yes, but unfortuantly it happened to the shire I used to ride and he was so heavy it meant that the pressure on the joints etc was too much and so he was PTS

but we had another dressage horse who was on bute and survived a number of years with it!

Its not a treatable problem as far as i am aware, but its management and pain relief etc......

sorry im not 100% but it is managable!
 
my mare has ringbone (coffin joints and fetlocks) She had 3 courses of adequan, put on synequin, bute and had corrective shoeing. she never came sound till she went natural barefoot.
she is now back in work, able to do fast work and jumping again.
 
It's definitely treatable, or at least my vet thinks so (hence why I've just spent £500 on Adequan and about to spend a load more), but I just wondered what other people's experiences were. It's not "curable", but is treatable I'm sure.
 
As you are probably aware it is just a laymans term for osteoarthritis. It can affect either the coffin joint or the pastern joint (low/high ringbone).

You would treat it like pretty much any other arthritis.

Treatments range from the older more traditional steroid injection (cortizone) combined with NSAIDs such as bute to the newer compounds that aim to help lubricate the joint, such as adequan, and high spec oral supplements such as synequin.

Another therapy that is beginning to see some use is IRAP .. google it, but from memory I think it stands for interleukin-receptor antagonistic protein (or similar). Haven't used it on anything myself but basically involves spinning down a blood sample from your horse, isolating the required proteins and re-injecting.

In conjunction with medical stuff, good shoeing and foot balance essential, as is working correctly on suitable surfaces. No galloping about on hard ground and teaching your horse to take more weight behing therefore putting less stress in front will help.
 
Thanks B&J. Must admit I actually hadn't made the link in my slow brain about arthiritis
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We've already had Adequan as you know and I was recommended IRAP yesterday so will be talking to vet about that. Recently started remedial shoeing - farrier has the x-rays from the vet and they've had some discussions about how best to shoe him. Physio was very pleased with his feet. You also know about the type of work I do with him and the lessons are all about getting him to sit down behind more, use himself properly and trying to get him correctly muscled therefore more athletic. It looks as though we're going about things the right way
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What is Synequin? Someone else recommended it. Am off to do some googling
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Thanks for the link. They don't compare it to what he's on at the moment, JointFX, on that page which would have been interesting. Vet has recommended JointFX above all others so that's what he's on ATM.
It doesn't look as though there's much difference between Synequin and JointFX, except that I know JFX has devil's claw, colostrum and some other stuff in.
 
Got a 16 yr old 16.3 maxi cob type with high ringbone right fore. He had his pastern joint medicated last week and also the fetlock above (a month ago) as he also had some pain there too. He's currently unshod, on holiday in the field, and will be having his shoes back on next week to come back into work (he's a hunter). The joint medication seems to have done the trick.

He hunted all last season with a sachet of bute the night after hunting, and on Feel Good 30 Joint & Relief (pain relief and joint support). He finished the season sound enough (for a high mileage 16 yr old ex hunt horse) but I wasn't sure he'd be good enough to get him fit this time. So far so good - he's sounder now than he was at the beginning of last season
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There's another horse on the yard with arthritis in his coffin joint and bony changes to his navicular too in both front feet. He's had some improvement with intra-articular injections to both coffin joints - approx 40% - but is still very iffy on unlevel surfaces.

He was scanned yesterday with some damage to the collateral ligaments too.

He's on synequin, a bute a day for comfort and will be IRAPing in a month's time.

He's had heart bars on for the last 4 weeks as well and will get even more heel support when he's shod next week.

Work-wise - he only hacks really (even before he was lame) so hard to get him to get off his front feet.

Hope you have some success with yours
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Did yours have Cortisone in his pastern joint? He's having remedial shoeing (lateral extensions and side clips) which is helping but he isn't lame on it, never has been. We only found out by accident!

Interesting to hear about yours hunting as that's what mine will do this season, and has done for most of his life. Unfortunately, he's also doing dressage, poor thing!
 
My horse has Non-Articular Ringbone in both front feet and his right hind. He also has Osteo-Arthitis of the Coffin and Pastern Joints in both front feet (although everything is worse in the left fore)

The Hind Ringbone settled down after two joint injections and has not troubled him since, he is kept on Devils Claw and Superflex as a precaution.
He has done two full seasons hunting and done some ODEs etc, since it was first diagnosed, but only when the ground is soft.
However the problems in his fore feet have only just been diagnosed, so we have medicated and now are waiting to see how he is in a month. Prognosis isn't so good now as he has so many problems.
 
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