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Date Posted: 03:02:32 03/29/03 Sat
Author: Scott Keith/Red Ink LLC/Trainer
Subject: Re: Belgian with Clinical Laminitis, can he recover fully???
In reply to: Carol Tracy 's message, "Belgian with Clinical Laminitis, can he recover fully???" on 21:43:59 06/27/02 Thu

Carol, full recovery from laminitis is questionable, but your prognosis from your vet is good. As long as there is no rotation of the coffer bone, you should have no problem. (I once had a horse that was racing with a slightly rotated coffer bone.) The important thing with a situation like that is hoof maintenance. Your Biotin will allow for good hoof growth, just have a regular farrier schedule. I was thinking that maybe the horse got sore due to the arthritis and the ring bone more so than from laminitis. The Glucosamine is the correct supplement for arthritic joints, while the MSM is utilized more by the muscles. Ring bone are very painful to a horse while the are "green", meaning that they are still developing and are rather soft. In time they harden and are considered more of a blemish than an unsoundness. Some horses who are severely arthritic must constantly be on a regiment of Bute. A single tablet of Bute to a horse is the equivalent of a single aspirin to a human, with long term side effects about the same for both species. I hope you found this informative, and I believe that you should have no problems with his recovery. Happy riding.

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