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 Ima Cool Kid
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Location: TN | DVM said she would recomend nerving a 15 year old gelding with coffin bone fracture any one ever had it done? did you show/ ride afterwards?? |
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| Make sure the horse blocks at the heel first.. lol I assume you have. most vets in good conscience will not recommend competing on a nerved horse. It can go bad real quick. Having said that, my mom went to the NFR on a nerved horse that the vet recommended only be ridden light trails ( As he winked his eye). They have a professional obligation to discourage it. |
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Location: TN | My vet has said that you just about have to hold a gun to his head to make him nerve a horse because there are so many other options available now. |
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Location: Arkansas | We had a mare nerved a few years ago from unexplained heel pain. We tried everythig else imaginable and this was the only option left! She was terribly crippled before, her entire body showed it too; her musculature and posture screamed pain! We did a heel block first to she how she would do and she immediately stepped off like a perfectly sound horse. My vet asked if I wanted to try riding her to see how she did; I said absolutely! She rode like a dream and I was blown away by how relaxed and smooth her gait was! Did her wonders and was performed once! Sometimes it has to be redone if the nerve endings regenerate, but she did amazingly well and we were able to shoe her to where she stayed sound! Now she takes care of a little girl at jr rodeos ;)
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| For a fractured coffin bone, no way in h***
Bones heal.
If you do nerve the horse and the horse can't feel anything, what happens when the coffin bones snaps into two.
The deep digital flexor tendon is attached to the coffin bone |
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| Years ago this was very common and I know a lot of people who competed on horses that had been nerved. Today, there are so many other op5ions that nerving one is rarely done |
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Location: NE TX | I had one a few years ago that I spent the money to nerve him and ended up selling him as trail sound only. He had a cracked navicular bone, vet said it would work and I could go back to running him a few months after. He would rear up and do whatever he could do to get away from the pain. I spent all that money and regret it now cause I could've sold him as trail horse sound before surgery and not spent all the money for surgery.
If you DO end up doing it, MAKE SURE YOU GO TO A SURGEON!!!! Not just a regular DVM! One that practices, lives, breathes surgery. That was my mistake and I will not make that mistake again. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Nerving one with a broken coffin and then riding,, not a good ideal. |
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Ima Cool Kid
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Location: TN | Thanks for the oppinions some experiences good and some otherwise.
This gelding is 15 years old and had the original injury in 2008 he had 2 years off cuz no one could figure it out but he did rear up and flip over a time or two durring this time. in 2014 we did Tildren and then seamed sound but then he got rank again this time he went to the University and their X ray is the best quality.....he has several coffin bone fractures basicly he shattered his coffin bone. The DVM said a clip shoe will help with decreasing the expanding and contracting that happens with every step but ultimatly nerving will give relief. I raised him so he has a home for life. Surgery would be $1000 which is cheaper in a year than special shoeing. it just sounds so drastic. Thanks again for the personal stories about your expereinces with Nerving
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Location: Arkansas | Good luck with everything! I can't imagine if my guy sustained an injury like that. I've had him twelve years so he is my child! I'll send some prayers your way! |
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Location: Soon to be outta here:) | My good mare fractured her coffin bone. I noticed right away though and she had two years off and lives in a bar shoe. She is now back to running sound with a little girl I lease her to! |
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| I had one that was nerved. You would have never known. Great treatment option. |
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Location: Texas | the fact that the coffin bone has fractures, i would be scared to run the horse after the neurectomy. |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | We had an old gelding with a coffin bone fracture. He was off and out to pasture for two years. We chose not to nerve him. He is now taking care of a little junior rodeo girl too. Sometimes they just need some time. Ours got it from kicking. Maybe see if something like that is causing the fractures and then remove the stimulus. He may heal up fine. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | The horse is my avatar was nerved. Ran her without issue. The nerves did regenerate around the 3 yr mark tho. |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | Knowing the broken bones, I would not. If it was simply unexplained heel pain, maybe. But the horse protects the foot to allow it to heal. I cant imagine it would heal properly if he were nerved.
We did one and the neuromas were way more painful than the foot itself and had to be redone. And eventually the coffin deteriorated and we had to put the horse down. I feel it would have been best to put her down years earlier than go thru that again. But it was so long ago that I am sure there are better procedures for nerving them now, like I am guessing a laser? |
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Ima Cool Kid
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Location: TN | He seams sound with his new bar shoe. Probably just leave him as a pasture orderment. It just gives hope to think of having him back but guess its best to leave well enough alone. |
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