Once your vet has come up with a diagnosis, there’s still the cost of treatment. Assuming that you can find the cause of your horse’s lameness, there are usually many, many possible treatment options.
From a scientific and biological point of view, these can range from the sublime, that is, treatments supported by good studies and data (otherwise known as “the ones that you should be inclined to use”), to the ridiculous (an extremely long list).
If the cause of the lameness remains elusive, the list of treatment options and opinions is virtually endless, and virtually guaranteed to make any caring horse owner crazy—and poorer.
Often forgotten is that when it comes to therapeutics, particularly with lameness, in most cases, the most important tool in the toolbox is time. Time…