Navicular in horses relates to problems associated with the navicular bone in the horse’s hoof and is a common diagnosis for lameness in the front foot. The label navicular disease is used to describe ...

A team of German researchers might have pinpointed the genes responsible in part for the development of navicular disease as the result of a study of Hanoverian Warmbloods. "Navicular disease, defined ...

In certain cases of navicular disease, drilling a hole into the navicular bone--a procedure called core decompression that's commonly used to treat human osteonecrosis (bone death caused by poor blood ...

Over the years, pain in the heel region as a result of damage to the navicular bone and its associated structures has been variously referred to as “navicular disease in horses”, “navicular syndrome” ...