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  Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | My new gelding got tangled in a fence while attempting to jump it. He now has a wound about the size of my handin on the front of his hock. Vet has been stopping by regularly to keep an eye on it. It is healing really well but may still take a good six months to heal completely. Im looking to see what I can do to help it heal therapeutically. i.e. laser, bioscan, magnets, etc. This is my first large wound.
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Location: Mansfield, Tx | Underwoods... it's easy and great stuff... leave very little scar...
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Location: Great NW | Vetericyn works wonders and it does not burn so the animals do not mind it. that is a tough location.
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Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | bump |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Im on the underwoods bandwagon as wellM |
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Location: North Dakota | Cold water hose as many times a day as possible. When it gets crusty, wrap it with triple antibiotic ointment until a "skin" forms-no more than a couple days, cold water hose and scrub with iodine based soap. If it looks too moist leave it to the air, if it looks too dry wash it and wrap it. (you need to wrap it correctly though-all the way past the fetlock) The cold water hose is probably the best thing for a wound-it may be old school but is pretty cheap too especially if it isn't snowing wherever you live! |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | THE NutraWound. I swear I feel like they heal twice as fast and my horse loved the taste of it. |
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Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | We cold hose like crazy. I was just thinking i had seen on here where some of the lights or lasers had helped. |
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Location: California | I don't have experience with horses and large wounds but my dog had a full front leg amputation , including the shoulder blade earlier this year. After surgery we went in for several sessions of cold laser therapy and the healing time for the wound itself was amazing. I also used magnets on her and did several sessions of acuscope/myoscope with an equine therapist . I would have to say the combination worked phenominally on the healing time , all other neuro issues aside.
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| Ideally, find some ozinated olive oil if you can. . . not so easy unless you know someone who can make it.
Try ZonOx by THE. I love all their products but haven't used this personally.
Get him on some NutraWound to help internally. Underwoods works wonders but I had a problem with my horse licking it off. . .
I have a laser and have heard great stories about healing fast, but I haven't had personal experience with it. Magnets would be nice. . . but if you have the ability to laser it 2x-3x a day that is ideal.
Gist - Zonox/Underwood, NutraWound, laser/magnets |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Mix 1/3 alcohol..1/3 vinegar..1/3 water spray on wound and entire hock front and back then cover with lime . clean off next day wash out. repeat. with the lime take a handful and press into the wound, this will keep dirt out with out wrapping and keep out infection. |
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| I agree with the laser therapy- I have a Diomedic, but there are others out there that can also do a good job. Lasers totally outshine (no pun intended) all other therapy tools when it comes to healing open wounds fast and clean.
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| Pickling lime will do wonders. My wealing filly cut herself in a bad place, vet could not stich, vet told me to wash and keep clean, was summer time bugs where bothering the wound, friend told me to get pickling lime got,rid of what proud flesh that was there and dried that wound up and i washed it once a day and threw that pickling lime in it. You wpuld be surprised, good stuff. I would throw some pickling lime on that wound does not cost much. Try it for a couple of days you will be a believer. |
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Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | Thank you! I'm looking at a patch from equinelightherapy.com What is the big difference between cold lasers and...not (?) cold lasers? |
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Too busy outside!
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| BleuIdGrl - 2013-12-03 7:04 PM Thank you! I'm looking at a patch from equinelightherapy.com What is the big difference between cold lasers and...not (?) cold lasers? Pretty much a cold laser is a class 3 laser, one that has been proven to promote healing of the tissues- the class 4 lasers, (hot lasers) are not used as much in wound healing because they can potentially damage the tissue that is trying to heal.
eta: and LED lasers just skim the surface- they can't penetrate to any depth like a cold laser will. Cold lasers are infrared-
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Location: The Frozen North | I would say that cold laser (class 3 lasers) have the most evidence for expediting tissue healing as far as therapeutic modalities go. I did a veterinary continuing ed class recently through the University of Tennessee's Vet school and they really promoted laser. |
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Too busy outside!
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| And now that I think of it- I believe Bioscan went out of business- |
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Bye-Bye Jiggle
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Location: Where ever there's sunshine! | trickster j - 2013-12-03 10:30 PM
And now that I think of it- I believe Bioscan went out of business-
There was a major infringement issue. I wasnt sure if it had actually gone thru yet. Good to know. |
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| BleuIdGrl - 2013-12-03 9:04 PM
Thank you! I'm looking at a patch from equinelightherapy.com What is the big difference between cold lasers and...not (?) cold lasers?
You don't want a heated laser, can really cause some harm. You want a cold laser.
Don't waste your money on the LED "lasers" like RevitaVet (although, RevitaVet is probably the best Infrared/LED light therapy out of them all as it does have some of the other light in it. . .) Get a TRUE laser. I love my Respond laser. . . but then, I got an AMAZING deal on it too. . . |
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