Osselets: You Need To Know About Chips
Osselets refers to swellings that appear along the front and sides of the ankle joint, in the area just below the cannon bone. Osselets are commonly seen in young horses…
Osselets refers to swellings that appear along the front and sides of the ankle joint, in the area just below the cannon bone. Osselets are commonly seen in young horses…
…the osselets “set up.” One horse in particular developed classical osselets with dramatic swelling but resolved completely within five weeks, with no residual ankle thickening or loss of motion. Areas…
…(osselets), tendon or suspensory, and the area was clearly carrying an increased amount of heat that indicated some active inflammation, we had our best results with Sore No-More. The only…
…may also be overloaded. • Long Pasterns. Long pasterns. Consequences: Tendon, suspensory or sesamoid injuries, osselets, underrun heels. • Short Pasterns. Short, upright pasterns. Consequences: Navicular, ringbone, sidebone. Coffin, pastern…
…Osselets ACUTE TREATMENT: Rest, ice, anti-inflammatories. Correct hoof angle. ONGOING TREATMENT: Support wraps or boots if ordered STALL TIME: Days to 2 weeks, until acute inflammation is gone. PADDOCK TIME:…
…osselets, tearing of the joint capsule of the fetlock. Early, acute cases should still be treated with rest and aggressive cooling. However, horses prone to recurrent problems in this area…
…from our first trial again performed well in terms of pain relief in cases of sesamoiditis, osselets, synovitis and an old intra-articular fracture of a fetlock. Bell boots $74/pair, fetlock/pastern…