My 5 year old mare had a bone chip removed from her front left knee. She has some minor cartlidge damage. They are suggesting doing IRAP therapy to help. Anyone have any experience with IRAP therapy? Happy with it or not?
Posted 2016-04-27 9:51 AM Subject: RE: IRAP Therapy
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I have done the IRAP therapy on the navicular bursa and only had two doses administered- it did help heal the bursa, but we ended up with an infection so still waiting to see if he will return to being sound
Never used IRAP, I did PRP. The IRAP is a better treatment than the PRP from my understanding. I used PRP on my mare with arthritic knees. She came back amazing!!!!!!!! I had much better results with the PRP than the steroids. I would not hesitate to do that treatment on a joint ever again on any of mine. The only reason I did the PRP over the IRAP was cost on my end.
Yes. And I used it one for time for the exact reason you stated. In a knee joint, after a chip had been removed. That and a very strict adequan schedule helped protect the integrity of the cartilage.
cmcelroy0308 - 2016-04-27 4:05 PM What was your adequan schedule if I could ask?
I did the loading dose of 1 shot every four days for 28 days (7 shots) twice per year. And he received a shot every 14 days in between. This was a horse I had won a lot on and had NFR aspirations with so, no expense was spared. But, an injury crushed that dream.
I still use adequan a lot. But, I only do the loading dose once per year on normal horses and give a shot every 21-28 days. It's cheaper than most feed thru's in the end. I don't have a lot of faith in feed thru's being able to do as much as adequan can in protecting cartilage. Some of them have good anti-inflammatory effects but, not the same type of thing.
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