Chip fractures in navicular bone

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hannavashays Reg. Jun 2010	Posted 2014-01-18 12:51 PM Subject: Chip fractures in navicular bone
Extreme Veteran Posts: 486 Location: CentralTexas	My main horse has a small (looked like a piece of dirt) chip off the distal side of his navicular. We were told to come back very two weeks for 6 weeks and do Shockwave treatments and a drug called Tildren in an IV into his hoof, and to shoe him with rockers on the front. My question is: Have any of yall had any experience with this? Is 6 weeks too optimistic? I'm pretty devastated, and the responses I have received so far were so negative. I have been told that my vet is dumb, that 6 weeks is too soon, and to get more vets to look. Well we have. One couldn't find anything, the other said it wasn't serious, keep running, and this is the only vet that we truly trust and actually gave us an answer and a solution. So I ask, is it too optimistic?
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lonely va barrelxr Reg. Apr 2005	Posted 2014-01-18 2:06 PM Subject: RE: Chip fractures in navicular bone
Reaching for the stars.... Posts: 12708	I watched Leo go from a top 1D horse at any show to bottom of 2D in one or two shows. Paige was smart enough and in tune with him enough to know something was wrong and sought an answer. Leo had fractured his navicular. I do not know the size or location of the fracture. She was here at my house last week when I first responded to your post but has gone home now so I can't ask. At the time of Leo's diagnosis Paige was 16 (I think) and of course she wanted to continue her youth domination with him. But she accepted that she would have to follow through with the rehab outlined by Dr. Meeker. She did. He came back, albiet slowly, to his former national 1D level runs. I did not say your vet was dumb. Nor did I reply negatively. Since I am not a vet and have not heard what your vet(s) are exactly saying, I can't even opine on the extent of injury or the optimal path or length of rehab. However, given that one navicular fracture can't be too differential from another (IMO non-vet opinion), I feel that if a vet told me 6 weeks to heal after being slightly involved with the rehab of another that took 2.5 years to total healing I would question the vet or seek a second opinion. If you think the horse is fine then do what you want and put the horse back to work in 6 weeks and see. But if there is a fracture in there somewhere 6 weeks won't do much to heal it. Bone healing is known and quantitiative medicine.
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cheryl makofka Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2014-01-18 4:42 PM Subject: RE: Chip fractures in navicular bone
The Advice Guru Posts: 6419	Using tildren for a fracture, I was able to start riding my horse in six weeks. Mine did a spiral fracture of his cannon bone. I legged mine up for another 6 weeks doing straight lines, then I could do anything. I say it is reasonable to think you could be back riding in 6 weeks if you used tildren and shockwave. Good luck
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