Stifling the Pain in Horses
The stifle helps propel horses across turf, over obstacles, and around tight corners.
The stifle helps propel horses across turf, over obstacles, and around tight corners.
Traditional treatment approaches generally involve an extended, expensive period of confinement or inactivity. Further, researchers have determined that the prognosis for hind-limb PSD following conservative therapy (which generally consists of rest, with or without shockwave therapy and treatment with drugs such as corticosteroids) alone is poor, with only 14% of horses resuming full work without lameness for more than a year.