Many horses respond well to a combination of medication ... with medication of the navicular bursa (the area around the bone itself) using corticosteroids and/or hyaluronic acid.

"The use of maggot debridement treatment is effective as adjunctive treatment for navicular bursa puncture wounds," he concluded. "The ability of horses in this series to return to work was better ...

The tip of the mosquito forceps is inserted in the navicular bursa through the T ligament ... cases are now being treated with endoscopes placed into a horse’s foot. These tiny telescopes ...

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separated from it by a fluid space called the navicular bursa. When the horse moves forward the DDFT comes into full contact with the navicular bone and damage in this area can be a major contributor ...

A. Gallium has been proposed as a cure for a type of lameness in horses known as navicular disease, and it seems to work well. Despite extensive publications written on the subject, navicular ...