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Location: North of the 49th Parallel | What are some issues that can come of this? Obviously a good farrier is a must. |
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Location: PNW | It depends on whether it is high or low ringbone. High ringbone affects the low-motion joint of the pastern, low ringbone affects the very high motion joint of the pastern/coffin. High ringbone is easily managed, you can opt for surgery to put a plate in and fuse the joint, mostly just pain management if needed. Low ringbone is a pretty big deal and can be career ending. |
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| Depends, we have a horse that has ringbone (in his pasturn) due to a terrible farrier (my dads horse/dads farrier, won't let him touch my horses:) he got sound shortly after we gave him Osphos, evened his feet out, left him barefoot, injected the pasturn 3x. He was off and on lame prior. But without treatment you're looking at some intense arthritis ! |
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Location: Beggs, OK | I dealt with a lot of compensatory soreness. Several vets would find things to put a bandaid on, but it took finding a new farrier that recognized the issue to get him comfortable. I was shocked that this horse had been seen by so many knowledgeable vets and they hadn't caught the source of the problem.
He stayed sore in his withers which caused all kinds of problems and saddle switching because it seemed like it was a saddle fit issue....the pain was coming from the ground up! |
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| A lot of vets say ringbone is osteoarthritis in a pastern joint.
As others said the low motion one you can fuse, the high motion you can inject.
Sad to say it is a degenerative disease, injections, farrier, antiinflammatories (legend iv, adequan im, some people will use previcoxx/bute)
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Going thru the same thing right now with mine, he's got beginning signs of arthritis, caught it early, and as the above posters said it depends where and the severity. We did injection his coffin with Depo medrol, and I will start him on IM joint suppliment to help lube,anti inflamatories when needed and definitely get with a good farrier that can help with his feet. Vet advised my farrier to roll his toe more for quicker breakover, and reduce concussion. |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | rachellyn80 - 2015-03-27 10:13 AM
I dealt with a lot of compensatory soreness. Several vets would find things to put a bandaid on, but it took finding a new farrier that recognized the issue to get him comfortable. I was shocked that this horse had been seen by so many knowledgeable vets and they hadn't caught the source of the problem.
He stayed sore in his withers which caused all kinds of problems and saddle switching because it seemed like it was a saddle fit issue....the pain was coming from the ground up!
Yes chiro kept pointing out issues in the upper part of my horses body(sacrum,shoulders, hocks) partly due to imbalanced feet and poor angles! problems have been alieviating themselves since I switched shoers! He is slowly getting better and standing more square, feeling and moving out better!
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| imturnin3 - 2015-03-27 10:19 AM
Going thru the same thing right now with mine, he's got beginning signs of arthritis, caught it early, and as the above posters said it depends where and the severity. We did injection his coffin with Depo medrol, and I will start him on IM joint suppliment to help lube,anti inflamatories when needed and definitely get with a good farrier that can help with his feet. Vet advised my farrier to roll his toe more for quicker breakover, and reduce concussion.
Please do your research on depo medrol before injecting again.
Depo is really cheap, is a steroid so has quick effects, but long term is horrible.
Depo actually says not to inject into a high motion joints. It is the steroid that has been proven to degenerate the cartilage even more, the metabolites stay in the joint longer (I think still shows at 3 weeks) and these metabolites prevent healing.
Trimethsinalone is the better steroid to give with HA as it has been proven to actually regenerate cartilage.
I purchased vet text books off of amazon I have a equine vet drug guide and an equine vet pharmacology text (this gives much more advanced info) |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I don't have any personal experience with this. But my husband's family had a mare with it when he was very young. They had to retire her because she took to rearing over backwards. She made them a nice broodmare and we still have two of her offspring. They turned into great performance horses and have never showed signs of it themselves. I also knew a girl in high school who ran a horse with it. He always seemed ouchy before her runs but would still go out and perform. Took her to state finals a couple times. I think he had even been to nationals before getting it. Obviously the one was manageable and the other not. I hope you can get answers and manage it well. |
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