Sunday, July 26, 2015

Symptoms Of Navicular Disease In Horses

By Phyllis Schroeder


Navicular bone is actually a flat bone that is present just at the back of the horse's coffin joint, attaching to the pedal bone. Navicular disease in horses is quite common and it mainly affects the navicular bone which lies in the foot of the animal.

Till this date, it hasn't been identified that what causes such disease in horses but it affects the horse in a negative way. If proper treatment and care is not provided, the health and well being of the animal is affected to a great degree. The animal would feel immense pain and this disease usually occurs in horses who are older than five years.

The symptoms associated with navicular are easily identified and one of such symptoms is the increased amount of lameness in the front foot. Lameness may come and go but it gets worse when you are training the horse on flat hard ground or when the animal is forced to ride in small little circles. As soon as you find him struggling doing such tasks, its important that you inspect the feet thoroughly to assess how bad the situation is.

Proper check and diagnosis is very important because depending on the diagnosis, a prescribed treatment is offered to the animal. In order to do the diagnosis accurately, the health record of the horse is checked thoroughly to ensure the animal is fit and healthy otherwise. In some cases, it is recommended to do radiography to assess the situation accurately.

Albeit there are medications for the navicular disorder however the appalling thing is that it is a sort of ailment that is difficult to cure. Keeping in mind the end goal to guarantee that the creature has the capacity carry on with an agony free life, you ought to do the trimming and shoeing in the best way that is available.

Now and again, it gets to be key to complete a surgical methodology however surgery ought to dependably be considered if all else fails on the grounds that certain ramifications could come about because of such strategy. The surgical method is known as Neurectomy and once it is performed, then the foot must be reviewed once a day all through the horse's life on the grounds that on the off chance that it is not investigated, then its very likely that some kind of harm or entanglement may emerge.

It doesn't make a difference what kind of feet shape a stallion has, any of them can build up this hurtful sicknesses yet in the event that legitimate consideration is taken and their feet are kept up all the time then this ailment can be avoided to a certain degree. This real motivation behind why it is not preventable in specific circumstances is the way that there is insufficient data in regards to the precise reason for it.

Prevention is always better than cure so if you maintain him well and take care of his feet and inspect them on a regular basis then its quite possible to prevent this sort of problem from occurring. Being a horse owner, its your responsibility to take care of him in the best way possible.




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