light, exercise, loud
sounds, smell, certain long-stem
hay and other stimuli.
This month’s expert :
Dr.John E. Madigan,
With your veterinarian’s assistance,
I suspect you will find an approach that helps. Don’t give
up.
A product that shows great
promise is Top Stock Headshaking formula, from New Zealand; in one
uncontrolled study, seven out of 10 horses improved while using
this supplement.
I believe there is hope for the
future of headshakers. Most pathology studies have found no lesions
or other physical problems with the trigeminal nerve, so it must be
a chemical instability that causes it to fire
inappropriately.
With enough research support, we
may be able to identify this tweak in the trigeminal nerve and, we
hope, correct it.
This work may also help us gain
insight into the painful condition of human trigeminal
neuralgia.
