lameness therapies

Joint injections are a common practice in helping horses with osteoarthritis or other inflammatory conditions experience relief. Joints are sterilely injected with short or long acting steroids, hyaluronic acid and/or other biologic substances that help lubricate the joint, decrease inflammation and provide relief from joint pain. 

Joint injections

Prostride and prp

Prostride is a new regenerative joint therapy that is more cost effective than similar treatments and very convenient as is it able to be processed and injected all in the same visit. Prostride is processed from your horse’s own blood. Fresh cells are injected and active in the joint after just one injection, giving more long-term therapeutic effects on the joint.
Prostride is an excellent option for horses that:
1.Get joint injections regularly as maintenance
2.Horses with a known joint injury
3.Metabolic horses in which steroid injections are contraindicated
4.Horses that have stopped responding well to traditional injections

PRP (platelet-rich plasma) is derived from your horse's blood. The blood is collected and processed to have high concentrations of platelets which carry many anti-inflammatory and natural healing factors and when injected, they recruit other healing factors from within the body to the area. PRP is used primarily for soft tissue injuries to stimulate and improve healing.

Both Pro-Stride and PRP have been used with impressive success in helping tendons, ligaments, and joints recover from injury and degenerative processes such as osteoarthritis

shockwave

Shockwaves are high energy sound waves that send a wave-like pulse into affected tissue to promote healing and blood flow.
Shockwave therapy has been known to:
-Stimulate new bone growth
-Increase cell permeability and stimulate healing and growth factors that contribute to the natural healing process
-Stimulate stem cells in the animal’s body to be directed to the treated area
-Cause new blood vessels to grow
-Stimulate fibroblasts, the cells that generate new connective tissue
-Relieve pain and muscle spasm