Navicular disease, or caudal heel pain, can seem devastating when diagnosed, but treatment options exist and many horses can return to athletic work.
Veterinarians have tools to help them make educated judgments about lamenesses, their causes, and prognoses.
The program includes lectures on feeding senior horses, saddle fitting, moon blindness, bandaging, and more.
The American Quarter Horse Foundation (AQHF) has announced their 2013-14 equine research grant recipients.
A team evaluated a possible association between distal border fragments of the navicular bone and lameness.
Researchers hope to more fully characterize alterations at the microscopic level in diseased navicular bones.
A reader is concerned about her 24-year-old easy keeper’s weight loss and sudden difficulty keeping weight on.
Technological advances such as MRI have given veterinarians a closer look at navicular syndrome.
Navicular bone shape and fragments found near it could help veterinarians better understand navicular disease.
In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone–a procedure called core decompression that’s commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood supply to the area)–might provide a new
Dr. Vernon Dryden of Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital demonstrates navicular syndrome diagnosis in a 16-year-old Quarter Horse.
Dr. Vernon Dryden of Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital discusses what navicular syndrome is, diagnosis, and treatment options.
Because navicular problems might affect soft tissue as well as bone, MRI is a better diagnostic tool than X ray in these cases, said Robert K. Schneider, DVM, MS, professor at Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and part
Instead of injecting the steroid triamcinolone acteonide directly into the navicular bursa, which can be technically demanding, veterinarians can instead inject the coffin joint and still potentially manage horses affected by navicular syndrome
A Table Topic of veterinarians at the American Association of Equine Practitioners 2009 convention chose to discuss applications of the heart bar shoe; the Nolan Plate system, including what it is and how it works; shoeing after deep flexor ten
When it comes to pain management in horses, the words “osteoarthritis” and “phenylbutazone” seem to work in tandem. But not all veterinarians are sold on the routine use of this drug in horses. Phenylbutazone is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
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