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Thank you for the replies. Fingers crossed he will continue to be sound! The swelling does seem to have reduced this last week, so feeling hopeful.

So about 5 weeks ago my dopy horse got a bit over excited going XC and came back very slightly lame, and with a swollen leg. I had the vet out a couple of days later, and he was put on box rest/bute. A scan then showed the check ligament was slightly inflamed, thankfully no holes or tears...

I'm liking the sound of being back riding in two weeks!

Thanks for the replies. Definitely sounds like I am better off having it done even if it does make me nervous. To be fair I currently have a very unattractive spike of bone sticking up on top of one of the bits of my collar bone, and I would not want to be left with that.

Brilliant thank you, that sounds a lot more positive. Hopefully my experience will be more like yours, and I will definitely look into early physio.

I got bucked off my idiot horse two weeks ago and broke my collar bone. It was painful, but not the blinding agony I expected a broken bone would be, and was rapidly improving. I have now been told it needs surgery as the bone is sticking out under the skin. I keep hearing horror stories...

I'd think he was reacting to pain before, and now he is comfortable his true nature is coming out. I've had the opposite, my usually pretty chilled out horse suddenly became very spooky, sharp, and seemingly full of himself. It wasn't until he bucked me off, and I got a physio to check him...

I have always firmly believed that in the vast majority of circumstances, most horses are far better off out in a field, so they can stretch their legs, graze, and socialise. This seems to be a really unpopular view now, and I don't understand what has changed. I am starting to wonder if I am...

Horse insurance is due again, and I have started searching the internet for quotes for my 7 year old Warmblood. So far if I renew with my current company its £600, and that is the cheapest I can find anywhere. It seems ridiculously expensive, but I'm not brave enough to take the risk of not...

Absolutely no way. Loaning a horse to someone with no experience, and no idea of how to ride, would be a very quick way to ruin a good horse. If he is willing to have lessons on a loan horse, then surely he can have lessons on someone else's horse first? This sounds like a disaster waiting to...

They are certainly not for me, but my 62 year old Mum has one, who is also a chestnut mare, and adores her. The pony is a law unto herself. In her younger days she would jump anything you put her at, but only at a gallop, ask her to go at a sensible pace and she'd stop. At 26 she can still be...

I keep seeing articles like this shared on Facebook, yet there are still several horses local to me out with rugs on, and its 18 degrees and sunny today. I have had several people question why I'm not rugging yet. It baffles me!

I had an explosive horse, I was almost ready to give up on. I got someone else to ride him a few times, and talk me through how to ride him through his explosions. A year on and he is completely relaxed in just about any situation. Now I need to find someone to get on him and help with...

Well done you, it can be hard work, but it is so worth it when it all comes together! Sounds like you are well on your way to BE80!

What really winds me up is people treating horses like they are humans. Our yard seems to be terrible for it. They all have rugs on if its below 15 degrees, and "duvet days" if it is raining, even when they have been in all night already.