How to treat horse ligament damage?
Ligaments serve a vital role in horse joint movement. Their injury could affect a horse’s soundness and performance level. Therefore, it is important to act quickly and find the most effective horse ligament damage treatment. Overall, they are divided into traditional and advanced treatments.
Traditional treatments
- Physical Therapy – physical therapy should start with 15-minute sessions of knee and fetlock joint flexions within the horse’s range of motion. Your veterinarian should then prescribe a controlled exercise regimen based on the injury’s ultrasonographic appearance.
- Surgical correction – some vets perform surgical desmotomy (ligament division) of the SDFT accessory ligament to release strain, but it’s controversial because it might result in further suspensory ligament injury.
- Neurectomy – veterinarians can perform a neurectomy to transect the nerve that innervates the suspensory ligament and alleviate pain.
Advanced treatments
- PRP – Platelet – Rich Plasma – it’s a blood product that contains at least twice the platelet count of normal blood. It provides high levels of growth factors for healing.
- Scaffold-Based Therapy – it creates a mini-ecosystem in a wound along with growth factors and all the signals involved in the healing process.
- Stem Cell Therapy – a veterinarian injects Stem Cells into the diseased area. Then they move to the inflamed or damaged tissue and suppress the inflammation. As a result, they relieve pain and cause new tissue to grow. Thereby, therapy prevents damages and injury recurrence, improves a horse’s health and overall well-being. Medrego EquiCell product is one of the most effective treatments. It has up to 90% success rate, the first results may be seen after 2 weeks and it’s 100% safe.