I’m interested to hear about more ProStride success stories as well. I just finished a round of IRAP (3 injections) in his coffin joints. So far, it seems to have helped quite a bit, but the price has stacked up very quickly with repeated injections. $850 (I believe) to process the serum, and $500+ per injection (total for both feet)…is not something I’m really willing to pay for again. If he needs another round of something in the future (I’m hoping he won’t, and the effects of IRAP will last few at least a year or so…my vet has seen it easily go 18 months or longer) I was thinking of ProStride if the effect is similar.
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Oh I would absolutely look into ProStride instead
of just IRAP. It was described to me by top surgeons as IRaP + stem cell + overall better. I know it’s not something all vets have accesss to yet but hopefully they will at some point.
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I have a horse that had a tip fracture of her coffin joint and surgical removal in the joint and we tried traditional injections, IRAP and Prostride. The IRAP would work about 5 months; she is so far 13 months sound (was flexed today) on Prostride. He stifle on the same side was compensatory arthritis. We treated with IRAP (inside/putside) and it will sork for 6 months. Next week she is getting Prostride inside/outside. Keeping fingers crossed.
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My horse just received ProStride today in coffin joint for navicular syndrome. He has a navicular bone cyst, but without an MRI, we really don’t know if soft tissue is also involved – as a result, we passed on a steroid injection which would hamper any soft tissue healing and opted for ProStride
During placement of needle, vet noted a lot of fluid coming out of joint – which was positively interpreted as a sign that the inflammation was indeed cyst related rather than soft tissue (Fluid was edema from inflammation?). Thoughts on that?
If it works, there should be improvement in 2-4 weeks. And if there is, I think I still need to treat it as though it could be soft tissue and bring back very slowly – like a month of hand walk, then tack walk, then slowly building trot, etc. Or, is that unnecessarily slow?
Other than the navicular bone cyst, his joints are very clean and open.
Bumping this again… would love to hear more Prostride stories of what worked and didn’t work for folks. My gelding is lame in his front hoof (it blocked sound) and showing navicular pain, but X-rays were all normal. So, he doesn’t necessarily “have” navicular but without further MRI diagnostics there’s no way to know what exactly is going on. vet advised injecting with ProStride, it is expensive.
We did it in my guy’s coffin joints and RF navicular bursa. He had been diagnosed with a navicular flexor surface defect and when the ultrasound guru did his next u/s about 12 weeks after the ProStride she was floored by how much “happier” his navicular was. Her comment was that the navicular bone flexor surface defect was stable, and adhesion to the navicular bursa wall appears to have lysed.
Where are you located? There’s a way to image the navicular and insides of the hoof by ultrasound- it just involves soaking the foot 24 hours prior and paring the frog flat so that the u/s probe can pass over it flat. I didn’t have the money for an MRI and the ultrasound guru we use (Dr. Gillis in Aiken, SC) calls her method poor man’s MRI. Another benefit is that you can monitor healing every 8 weeks compared to an MRI which would be cost prohibitive.
As a follow-up, my horse improved so that he is not lame at walk – but remains off at trot. We tried Osphos four weeks ago and not much improvement there. I think it is finally time to do an MRI because I would have expected everything to improve a little with time off since mid-June, and it really hasn’t (sigh).
Guess it’s my turn to try this stuff. My older guy is only getting about 4 months out of regular stifle injections so we are moving to IRAP or Pro Stride. For those that have used it on stifles- how many injection sites on each stifle were needed? Does one kit treat each stifle completely?
Well let me follow-up, just in case anyone is following. I did an MRI and he has a host of niggly problems that vet said shouldn’t cause lameness by themselves, but maybe together they do for him. (Probably the most interesting thing was that the navicular cyst we had seen on xrays the past year – wasn’t a cyst after all, just an artifact of the way his bone was shaped.)
We opted to inject the navicular bursa, and two weeks after, he is now sound. We are bringing him back slowly, but so far, so good. FWIW, they do the injection from the side, so they don’t have to introduce a needle through the DDFT to reach the bursa.
And you injected Pro Stride in June? That’s awesome.
I did stifles end of June and here we are again…ugh. My vet is coming Friday but then I have to make a separate appt for the injection as the Pro Stride machine is in use that day. I may just change the whole appt so I can do it all at once. Save me another call fee at least.
I am going to try ProStride on my mare’s hocks in a few weeks. She’s been getting regular hock injections for years, but they aren’t working as well or lasting as long. She also is borderline IR, so steroid injections are not recommended. I have a good sports medicine vet who quoted $1100 for the ProStride (plus farm call and sedation) – which is not too too much more than regular hock injections around here. It sounds much easier than IRAP/PRP.
She is almost 22 and mostly a trail horse, but I want her to be more comfortable being ridden than she is right now.
I will let you all know how it goes.
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Wondering how the pro stride has worked for stifles specifically. Any update?
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Bumping this again… Anyone have stifle stories?
We did pro stride in a horse with a stifle that was swollen and it fixed him so well he never needed a stifle injection again. We did another one with advanced stifle arthritis and did not have as good results, but the joint had been unstable from a strained ligament.
I love pro stride as it seems- from the information available- like it is so much better for the joint. I don’t understand why vets want to exhaust regular injections before switching. It is more expensive, so it’s worth injecting with steroids/HA the first time to make sure that joint really is the problem, but if you know you have the right joint, I think pro stride is a good investment.
I see this thread is old but I’m constantly looking around for anyone dealing with an OCD in the shoulder. Not much luck with that but I’d thought I’d share my Pro Stride experience… Over a year ago a Vet recommended I use Pro Stride twice a year on my mare and IM Adequan monthly for life. It was a total game changer for her. She’s now had 3 injections and remained sound except for a brief lameness due to a rough trailer ride. She was 14 months old when she had a pasture accident resulting in the shoulder injury. She had been off and on lame for almost 7 yrs. I can now ride her. So, for me, Pro Stride is a miracle drug !
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I did end up using ProStride for the stifles in a late teens gelding with arthritis. It was okay at best. He responded much more favorably to Noltrex.
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Hi Palogal - my mare actually just had surgery on her shoulder for a injury. Not sure when or how it happened. But would love to find out about your rehab. We did stem cells in the shoulder and prostride in the coffin and pastern ( secondary lameness from shoulder) we just started small paddock turnout and aqua tred. But thinking ahead I am wondering if I need to consider prostride as part of her routine maintenance. What level of riding are you currently doing with your mare? I am hopeful to have her sound enough to be a low level all rounder, capable of jumping 2’6
Did my horses hocks and coffin joints with ProStride. Great results.
My mare did two rated shows last year at Training Level. She was Reserve High Point in Open divisions both times. To say I was thrilled is an understatement!! She has a lot of talent for the lateral work but she’s emotionally immature. I’m super conservative with her schooling. Twice a week plus power walking sessions thrown in for fitness. Her shoulder arthritis will never go away but I’m trying to slow down the progression with the Pro-Stride. As I said, she’s never stayed sound this long until I started those injections. She was misdiagnosed as a yearling. So there was no rehab. What kind of surgery did your mare have?
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Arthroscopic surgery to clean out the damaged cartilage and micro-fracture to help repair. We did stem cells about a month post surgery. She is making leaps and bounds as it has only been 3 months post surgery and she is trotting sound! In a few weeks the vet is going to come back out do another round of shockwave and do prostride in the shoulder . I am anticipating that will be part of her routine maintenance. Hoping we will be cleared for work by spring!
