eezeerider
Member
Hello,
Beginning to bring my horse back gradually into light work after 3 weeks of box rest due to him coming in from well and hilly field rather sore somewhere between pelvis and hock on left side. Physio lady advised box rest for three weeks with leg-stretch walking in-hand once a day, with visits from her at week-plus intervals, all of which he's had.
He's much improved and this week has been turned out in mornings and I'm just beginning to gently lunge on large circle, walk and trot. His quarters are not particularly well developed, but then he's only in light work and is only 4 yrs old.
Here's the thing - she says he's 'paddling' behind, and he's still showing to be slightly sore around sacroiliac area. I've had him 10 months and looking back at video clips of him in trot he 'paddled' slightly when I first got him and has always done so. Physio lady seems neutral about whether to involve vet (investigation/bone scan etc). She recommends a programme of gradual rehabilitation through exercise, whereas a friend of mine says I should go down the vet-bone-scan route. He's my first horse and I'm planning to keep him for ever, as a happy, healthy, un-stressed, classically schooled and well behaved best-friend horse.
Any thought, cautions, experience greatly appreciated!
Beginning to bring my horse back gradually into light work after 3 weeks of box rest due to him coming in from well and hilly field rather sore somewhere between pelvis and hock on left side. Physio lady advised box rest for three weeks with leg-stretch walking in-hand once a day, with visits from her at week-plus intervals, all of which he's had.
He's much improved and this week has been turned out in mornings and I'm just beginning to gently lunge on large circle, walk and trot. His quarters are not particularly well developed, but then he's only in light work and is only 4 yrs old.
Here's the thing - she says he's 'paddling' behind, and he's still showing to be slightly sore around sacroiliac area. I've had him 10 months and looking back at video clips of him in trot he 'paddled' slightly when I first got him and has always done so. Physio lady seems neutral about whether to involve vet (investigation/bone scan etc). She recommends a programme of gradual rehabilitation through exercise, whereas a friend of mine says I should go down the vet-bone-scan route. He's my first horse and I'm planning to keep him for ever, as a happy, healthy, un-stressed, classically schooled and well behaved best-friend horse.
Any thought, cautions, experience greatly appreciated!