Navicular Disease... Corrective shoes applied, very soon showing Pastern Swelling.?
9 year old APHA mare diagnosed with Navicular. Corrective shoes applied 5 weeks ago. Great improvement, but only just recently showed pastern swelling overnight after a workout. Swelling went away right now after light liniment applied and wraps for just an hour. Cause? I'm rather experienced, so please own 10+ years experience when replying please.
Well it sounds like you know what the disease is that it the bone rotation contained by the hock and not the actual hoof itself. I have a horse with nevicular. My suggestion to you is give the horse a year sour do not put shoes on her and ask your vet about joint supplements. I did this with my horse and immediately hes fine. Once in a while it acts up but then hes fine. Just get sure you bute her the morning of a show and then put her in a stall at hours of darkness every night so she can get off her foot revealing the pain.
She will never draw from used to the shoes. If she truly has navicular, shoes are the last thing she desires. Horses with navicular are usually fatigued, overworked, and have desperate shoeing/trimming. The hoof is usually too upright throwing the weight on the hoof too far forward resulting surrounded by navicular syndrome symptoms. There is no such thing as "corrective shoeing". If your horse is lame or injured, that problem will not resolve by shoeing. Navicular is permanent - there is no cure as it is a degenerative condition. Once the defile is done, it cannot be fixed. The horse can be sound for some activities, but great care have to be exercised to help them be pain free with the best possible function/mobility. You involve to get the shoes off and keep them bad. The feet need to be trimmed to get the substance back where it needs to be to make available the horse relief and slow the degenerative processes. Doesn't sound like stocking up. The swelling could be a combination of various different things, difficult to venture a guess in this forum. If her leg was swollen a short time ago the one time, it could have been any little bump or clip while riding. If it just happen that one time, I would not be so concerned about the transient swelling. I would be very concerned about the navicular diagnosis, but even more alarmed roughly the "corrective" measures. Hope you can figure it out and help your horse for the long-term.
Answers: She stocked up it sounds like after a workout then standing in a stall over hours of darkness. Don't think it had anything to do with the corrective shoes. It would own gone down anyway once you got her out and got her moving again.
I would suspect that there may be synovial fluid swelling under the ligament sheath, or of the navicular bursa, which could be associated with inflammation and damage to the tendon surrounded by that area, and the vet should be called for diagnosis and treatment. In the meantime, cold application and rest is best. This has nil to do with stocking up.it is a tenosynovitis, which is a tendon sheath injury, or could be a bursitis. Hope I'm wrong, but it should be checked out.
