Joint Burning.

Anyone heard of a practice of burning the joints in racing greys.

My black and white has burns on his front legs and so has a friends. A vet told me it's done to lengthen the joint life.

Anyone else?

SuffolkSight said:

Anyone heard of a practice of burning the joints in racing greys.My black and white has burns on his front legs and so has a friends. A vet told me it's done to lengthen the joint life.

Anyone else?

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Sounds barbaric whatever it is

June Jonigk said:

SuffolkSight said:

Anyone heard of a practice of burning the joints in racing greys.My black and white has burns on his front legs and so has a friends. A vet told me it's done to lengthen the joint life.

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Sounds barbaric whatever it is

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it is called pin firing not many vets do it here in england, but common practice in ireland they do if they have a fracture so the put on an iron type thing that goes round the leg and burn so it all fuses together under anesetic there is also a common practise of blistering which is ort of similar but its a lotion that you have scrub in to the skin which after a few time the skin blisters and then shrinks, you will find a lot of racing greyhounds have this done some time during their career

typically they are not worried about breeding dogs with week bones as long as they go fast and their parents were fast and useful, hope i have explained enough for you. unfortunately there are some awful things done to these elegant loyal hound in the name of money,

i'm sure ive heard of that being done to racing horses too, sounds awful

lalena said:

i'm sure ive heard of that being done to racing horses too, sounds awful

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[SIZE=8pt]your absolutely right on the horses[/SIZE]

Ive never heard of either of these things - sounds horrible

I'd heard of it used on all sorts of competitive horses (jumpers in particular), I had no idea it was used on greyhounds....

I didn't know they did it on Greyhounds but i knew they did it on horses.

Some horses after it's been done are left with a weakening in that particular joint.

I thought firing in horses was when the tendon is streched through injury the burn the tendon with a red hot firing iron so the tendon constricts don't think it works every time

This article on pin firing in horses might be of interest.

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/horsecare/1370/107799.html

The process of ''pin firing'' as I understand it is to create scarring usually by chemical, mechanical or pharmaceutical means. It isn't neccessarily a painful process (dependant on the methods used)

It's aim is usually to gain some form of rigidity in lax ligaments or tendons and associated joints especially were natural scarring isn't substantial enough for various reasons (e.g. poor bloody supply to an area like extremities)

The benefits can be to prevent dislocation of a joint, or the prevention of further injury to adjacent tendons and ligaments that would have to bear some load as part of a compensation process that would occur during movement.

The risks are that excess scarring, depleted of an adequate blood supply could prevent complete healing or render the treated area fragile to breaking completely in the future.

The term 'pin firing' is a commonly used term used to cover various methods of treatment and this is where the reader should take note as there can be a fair bit of scaremongering because the term is used so widely.

Some forms of treatment are indeed barbaric and banned, for example the use of sulphuric acid, but the use of steroidal agents or sclerosing agents are common therapeutical practises used not only in animal treatment but in humans as well. They can have great benefit without pain and should not be ruled out when recommended by a decent vet.

Can I PIN FIRE the Mrs arm please so it cannot reach into my wallet, only joking ladies, dont want to cause world war three.