Posted 2014-08-20 1:40 PM Subject: Tell me all about ringbone...
You get what you give
Posts: 13030 Location: Texas
One of the horses I have at home has been diagnosed with ringbone in one pastern. I am waiting on the rads to be emailed to me for a second opinion but the first opinion I got was not good at all.
I really had no complaints about the horse and was just curious about one pastern being larger than the other.. and my vet was there so I asked him about the larger pastern. Seems like I opened a hornet's nest.
I just love furthering my vet school knowledge on my own horses
Posted 2014-08-20 4:08 PM Subject: RE: Tell me all about ringbone...
Angel in a Sorrel Coat
Posts: 16030 Location: In a happy place
Sorry you got this news. Ditto on getting an education to be a veterinarin using your own horses and money. My stud developed this horrible diesease and he was cripple the last 3 years of his life. Nothing we could do, believe me I would have tried anything. I hate ringbone. And yes I realize sometimes it can be made better.
Posted 2014-08-20 5:03 PM Subject: RE: Tell me all about ringbone...
Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest
My first horse had it. He was on and off lame and was never really right even though he was only 5. He was mostly a pasture puff until 16, when she put him down. It is degenerative. Sorry you got this diagnosis! Sometimes ignorance is bliss....
ETA Mine was High Ringbone. He was a rescue, and it was pretty far progressed before we got him. Hopefully there are more options available these days. Mine did okay for years as a trail horse (with a family friend).
Posted 2014-08-20 7:33 PM Subject: RE: Tell me all about ringbone...
It Goes On
Posts: 2262 Location: Muskogee, OK
High or low? I am assuming high since you mentioned the pastern. Definitely depends on the degree of arthritis present how you are going to manage it. It is very possible, especially if the horse isn't super lame, that you can get away with managing it with joint injections.
In more advanced cases however, it is always important to remember that the pastern is a very low motion joint and CAN be surgically arthrodesed... Horses can live a very sound, athletic life with a surgically fused pastern.
Tell me all about ringbone...
