Understanding, treating, preventing navicular disease - Remco Sikkel

Navicular disease : understanding, treating, preventing is a beautiful book of 214 pages that explains exactly what navicular disease is. The origin of navicular disease, the development of this condition, the diagnostic techniques and the available treatments are all discussed in detail. A lot of attention is paid to the crucial importance of good nutrition, housing, exercise, training and hoof care. After reading this book, you will know how to treat your horse with navicular disease as well as possible and what supporting role you can play in this. You will know what to do and what not to do to prevent the situation from getting worse. If your horse does not yet have navicular disease but does have other causes of pain at the back of the hoof, then with this book you have the tools in your hands to turn the tide in time.

The book is richly illustrated with 175 beautiful color photographs.

Navicular disease background information

Navicular disease; a word that sends shivers down the spine of every horse owner. Your horse will be written off immediately and can no longer be used for sports. If you do not intervene quickly with therapeutic hoof trimming, anticoagulant and cartilage-protecting medicines or even have nerves cut, it is over for your horse. But is that really the case and does your horse really have navicular disease? To determine this, a comprehensive and correctly performed diagnosis must be made. Based on this, it must be irrefutably established that there is osteoarthritis of the navicular bone. If this is not the case, then the horse does not have navicular disease in the classic sense of the word. Another form of palmar hoof pain syndrome, which he may be struggling with, can be extremely painful and immobilizing, but it is not navicular disease.

The raison d'être of this book is the aim to keep as many horses as possible on the right side of the line. We must prevent horses with sometimes considerable tissue damage to the navicular or heel area from passing that critical limit and actually developing navicular disease. For those horses that have not succeeded in this, this book must ensure that the situation does not deteriorate. The right treatment and adjustments in living conditions must ensure that they can continue to enjoy a happy horse life as pain-free as possible.

About the author

Remco Sikkel has been active as a hoof care professional since 2002. He is an expert in the field of laminitis and navicular disease in horses, ponies and donkeys. With his books he wants to inform horse owners in a constructive way. In this way he hopes to help as many animals as possible that suffer from this nasty condition.

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