What You Should Know When Dealing With Navicular Pain

By Janine Hughes


This is a symptom that is common in horses. It is a symptom of a syndrome that leads to a degenerative condition of structures in the heel of a horse. Navicular pain can be felt when there is a problem with the navicular bone. You will notice some sort of disability on your animal. If this problem is not dealt with early enough, the disability may end up being permanent.

There are a couple of reasons that are assumed to cause this problem. From recent research, toe-first landing can be a problem. It is considered a cause or at least a contributing factor. This is because it leads to misalignment of the lower joints. It can be caused by over trimming of the hooves. Long toes and poor shoeing can also lead to this type of landing.

You ought to ensure that your animal has proper blood circulation in all parts of the body. Poor blood transport in this area has led to pain in a number of breeds. You will notice a change in stride due to lack of comfort. This problem spread fear to many farmers, when their animals had it. Thanks to new technology there fear has been greatly reduced.

There a couple of symptoms you should look out for if you think your animal has a problem. Lameness is the most obvious symptom. It is easily noticed on a hard surface than on a soft surface. This is because the pain on a hard surface is more intense. X rays can be done to try and identify this problem. However, the results may not show this problem.

Another symptom is when your horse often stumbles. Other animals are normally large and have to rest on relatively smaller feet. Breeds with this kind of anatomy offer suffer from this syndrome. Only a veterinarian is suitable to do proper examination of an animal. When a farmer notices a problem in his or her animal he ought to seek help.

Majority of horses that have this issue can be helped. However, there are those sorry cases that are already at a progressed state and therefore not much can be done. To treat any horse showing signs of this disease correct shoeing should be done. This basically involves proper balancing of the hooves front to back and side to side.

There are medicines that vets give the animals. They help improve circulation by unblocking the vessels. This will mean that more blood will be received in the problem area. Research has shown that many breeds have been responsive to this type of treatment. After a while the administering of drugs has to be done again.

Exercise is said to be helpful too. It helps deal with problems that involve decreased circulation and trauma to the bone. These animals do at least thirty to sixty minute exercises. This is within a period of six days in a week. The riding is structured and the animal is taught to bear more pain on the hind legs. There is a way out to this kind of problem in animals.




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