Re: RC: Diagnosis: Navicular

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Question the vets...I have a gelding that was diagnosed with navicular.
Well, he doesn't have it.  That was two years ago.  Poor x-rays, poor
diagnosis and poor shoeing.  Took me an entire year and over $1000 in
shoeing to correct ONE farrier's bad work.  The vet was NOT an endurance
vet..in fact a QH vet..so was the farrier.

It is VERY rare for arabs to have navicular.  Call the American Farriers
Association (in Lexington, KY) or Mitch Taylor at Kentucky Horseshoeing
school.  Both can give you referrals to farrier that work with GOOD vets.

How old is your horse?  Mine was 5 at the time..he is now 7 and just fine.

teddy

Lauren & Allan Horn wrote:

> I am so devastated. Our arab gelding was just diagnosed with navicular.
> Three vets dismissed the symptoms and instead focused on a sore hock. I
> finally insisted on front feet x-rays and there it was for all eyes to
> see; large vascular changes in the navicular bone. Poor guy - he is such
> a giver that we never knew how much pain he was probably in. He did 6 LD
> rides the past year and was pulled, for the first time, 2 weeks ago at
> 30 miles while trying his first 50.
>
> So now we are treating an arthritic hock with some bone degeneration and
> deposit which the vet says was probably caused or aggravated by him
> shifting his weight to the rear, off the front. We are treating the
> resulting sore back with muscle relaxers AND NOW we are treating the
> navicular with wedge aluminum bar shoes and major changes in his hoof
> angle/balance and will try ixosuprine. Poor guy. Poor us. We had such
> high hopes this season.
>
> I'm expecting that this is the end to his endurance career. I know he
> would do fine in any other discipline, as he is well trained, and I
> expect that his navicular can be managed well. I have to find him a new
> home as I can't afford 3 horses. That also means we are on the search
> (again) for a new horse.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts or similar experiences I would love to hear
> them.
>
> Lauren
>
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