Recent content by d_morrow

This might be helpful: http://www.doctorramey.com/ready-tildren-osphos/

Bump! Would also be interested to hear more about this.

Tendons again, but here is a an enlightening article on the effectiveness and limitations of regenerative therapies by a specialist who has been helping me to rehab my horse after she injured her tendon a second time. If I had known about this first time around, I would not have wasted my time -...

Thanks for the info. I'll check the site.

20kg Linseed £16.50????? Wow! Wish I was local! Still a good price for non local delivery though.

For linseed I use my local pet supplies merchant and he gets it from a distributor hence no extra delivery charges. It's Charnwoods 20kg bag - last bag I bought was feb this year and it was only £21.50. In answer to your other question - you need to ask for "micronised full-fat linseed meal" (as...

Quote: He came over from Ireland in July so likely will have had minimal hoof care Whoooooaaa!!! Make a few sweeping generalisations why don't you? Insult an entire nation while you're at it. Quote: As with a lot of Irish horses he was quite poor on arrival But cheap though eh?

As I see it, your priority just now is to look after the tendon - yet it seems to me that you are worrying more about the feet. If the feet are as good as you say, then surely they can cope with whatever your vet suggests in the short term. Then when the tendon is stronger, you can work...

My purebred arab mare was on box rest for nearly 4 months this year with a tendon injury. She then went onto pen turnout by day and still stabled at night. However, as we are on a livery yard, she was very wound up by the comings and goings of other horses so on the vet's advice, I switched...

My horse had prp back in January and was my vet's recommendation over stem cell, which is more complicated and she felt that prp was equally good. Both treatments are enhancements but there are no shortcuts. The bottom line is indeed time and structured rehab. For comprehensive advice on sdft...

I think it often is the same product - though maybe not in every case. If you do a search on this forum you will find lots of info on wood pellets generally.

I agree with taking shoes off but as someone who is also dealing with a sdft injury, I would be very careful about going from slight wedges to no wedges all at once. I would therefore ease back on the work a little - and note that firm/hard surfaces are better for tendons than soft going.

OP if you haven't had a horse for a long time you might be interested in this free online course:https://www.coursera.org/course/equinenutrition It's run by the university of Edinburgh vet school and is coming around again next january. I did it last time and found it interesting, flexible and...

You definitely need to speak to your vet PDQ. Heat in tendons = damage. Cold hose or ice the legs for 10 - 20 mins and no more (otherwise you get rebound inflammation). I wouldn't leave bandages on as there is a risk of keeping the legs warm.

I have heard that horses with sore tendons do this. Have you checked the legs for heat/pain? A bit of cold hosing wouldn't do any harm as a precaution - 10 mins 2 or 3 times a day - and reduce the workload by half for a while. That may sound a bit OTT but as someone who has spent all year...