Hydrogel is supposed to be a version of HA that lasts a year or so. Don’t know much just heard of it.
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Hydrogel is supposed to be a version of HA that lasts a year or so. Don’t know much just heard of it.[/QUOTE]
hmpt…never heard of it. Any good links out there?
Talked a little more to the vets in-between surgery’s and it is the coming storm. There is also a new compound out of Russia but the Hydro-Gel is supposed to be a big advancement. As I hear more I will post something. The vets are really pumped on it though. They do hundreds of legs a year here in Lexington, so when they prick their ears up, I listen.
Do they know what a hydrogel is? By definition, it is a solid plastic that binds water. Can you imagine putting a chunk of material in a joint? NO WAY!
Yes, they make hydrogels from hyaluronic acids. But they are pretty dense. We use them for bone tissue engineering as well as neural tissue guided regeneration. But, again, they are hard blocks. You could knock a person out if you threw it at them.
Remember where some of your information is coming from. Russian medical research is notorious for distortion and very deleterious experiments.
Well, it depends on which hyaluronic acid hydrogel you are talking about:winkgrin: Photopolymerizable hyaluronic acid(1%) hydrogels are not hard as blocks, and showing great promise in repair of focal chondral defects. BUT…we’re just now transitioning to “large” animal models, and I certainly wouldn’t go injecting it in a joint just yet.
Just saw this, how is the research developing? Or not?
Polyacrylamide hydrogel has been in clinical trials for equine use in the US. Here’s the first related link I found:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403890/
My mentor made a good point about this product: every year or two we have a the next miracle coming out and none of them have yet to have lived up to the hope. I would be willing to try it as a last resort, but not replacing maintenance injections until it has a good track record.
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Polyacrylamide hydrogel has been in clinical trials for equine use in the US. Here’s the first related link I found:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403890/
My mentor made a good point about this product: every year or two we have a the next miracle coming out and none of them have yet to have lived up to the hope. I would be willing to try it as a last resort, but not replacing maintenance injections until it has a good track record.[/QUOTE]
that is some super promising results though, not just initial studies being conducted.
I imagine this is what you’ll turn to when the maintenance stops lasting long enough. You don’t get an unlimited amount of joint injections per joint; eventually they stop lasting as long, and then don’t last long enough. I can see where this will have a large market.
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that is some super promising results though, not just initial studies being conducted.
I imagine this is what you’ll turn to when the maintenance stops lasting long enough. You don’t get an unlimited amount of joint injections per joint; eventually they stop lasting as long, and then don’t last long enough. I can see where this will have a large market.[/QUOTE]
And a market for horses that can’t have steroid injections due to the worries of laminitis.
