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Hi! I am wondering if anyone has any tricks for dealing with a navicular horse. My 9 year old QH gelding was diagnosed with it when he was 5 or 6 years old, in the right front foot, after he started bucking under saddle. About a year and a half ago he was diagnosed with it in the left front as...

I have a 10 yo APHA gelding diagnosed with caudal heel pain in his left front and an incorrect plantar angle causing a broke back coffin joint. We have been trying various therapeutic shoeing but vet has suggested giving bute to help the slight favoring still of the left front. I will bute short...

Please help me. My horse has navicular pain and is overdue for injections but is showing bizarre head symptoms. He is tossing his head, sometimes violently, and then reaching down to scratch his face with his legs. Tight jaw and clenched teeth and lower lip. Will not eat. Looks so uncomfortable...