Innova Horse Care

28/01/2024

Did you know that superficial digital flexor tendon injury is one of the most common injuries affecting the modern sport horse?

SDFT injures account for 75-95% of tendon injures in the front limb.
Importantly most of these are not caused by direct trauma but by being cyclically overloaded.

This cyclic effect overload can be a result of hoof balance and surface.
Very commonly tendons wraps are used to try and prevent injury, but in reality these can bring the tendon temperature to a point detrimental to tenocytes and actually exacerbate the cyclic damage.

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18/11/2023

Sospechosamente parecidas a las Explora horse boots…

18/11/2023

Los caballos que saltan descalzos ya estan saltando en nuestro país

06/10/2023

11/08/2023

11/08/2023

Aves rapaces de la Península Ibérica.
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05/08/2023

04/08/2023

Yesterday I showed you a foot with the start of navicular syndrome. The underside of the navicular bone and the deep digital flexor tendon was starting to yellow.

Now here is a pretty serious one. Full blown navicular disease.

Note the navicular bone is literally sticking to the digital flexor tendon. There were fibres holding them together called adhesions. They were very strong.

Look at the navicular bone surface. That’s where those adhesions were. It is literally a hole there full of. I believe, inflammatory tissue and tiny microscopic bone fragments as the bone is being destroyed.

This poor horse was slightly lame for years but it progressed to 4/5 lame on this foot.
He was a TB whose racing name was Starquest in New Zealand and was about 12 years old.

Please no nasty language to the owner who did the best she could and thought is was abscesses recurring. He was a pasture pet.

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