sky2
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Hi all,
I'm more of a lurker than a regular poster but wondering if anyone can give me some advice.
My horse suffered an injury from a freak accident in the field just over 4 weeks ago. She was seen at Leahurst for an eye injury which has healed, the cuts on her leg were considered superficial and have been healing well. She came back home and they said the leg would take a few weeks to return back to normal size as it had been bashed, a bit like how our leg would.
On check up with my vet this week they scanned her leg to check for tendon damage, and have said she has bruised the tendon, no strains, pulls, tears. She will be on 20 mins hacking a day building up 5 mins a week. All fine, he then recommended carthrophen injections that would help the tendon so he gave her one of those and she's meant to have 1 every week for 4 weeks. But since looking into these I can't find much info on it's use or benefit on soft tissue injurys only arthritis which she hasn't got, no signs on x rays. He also said that he'd say the horse has 95% chance of returning back to normal workload and he'd be surprised if she didn't. I have a niggling feel that as she's insured they are doing more than she needs, great if it will help and insurance pays but I also don't want to run up my claim limit on unnecessary injections. Is it worth me getting a second opinion, would that affect my insurance? Does anyone have any experience of a tendon being bashed/bruised with no strain/pull or tear and returning back to work? Apologies for all the questions but I just have a niggling doubt with the vet atm.
I'm more of a lurker than a regular poster but wondering if anyone can give me some advice.
My horse suffered an injury from a freak accident in the field just over 4 weeks ago. She was seen at Leahurst for an eye injury which has healed, the cuts on her leg were considered superficial and have been healing well. She came back home and they said the leg would take a few weeks to return back to normal size as it had been bashed, a bit like how our leg would.
On check up with my vet this week they scanned her leg to check for tendon damage, and have said she has bruised the tendon, no strains, pulls, tears. She will be on 20 mins hacking a day building up 5 mins a week. All fine, he then recommended carthrophen injections that would help the tendon so he gave her one of those and she's meant to have 1 every week for 4 weeks. But since looking into these I can't find much info on it's use or benefit on soft tissue injurys only arthritis which she hasn't got, no signs on x rays. He also said that he'd say the horse has 95% chance of returning back to normal workload and he'd be surprised if she didn't. I have a niggling feel that as she's insured they are doing more than she needs, great if it will help and insurance pays but I also don't want to run up my claim limit on unnecessary injections. Is it worth me getting a second opinion, would that affect my insurance? Does anyone have any experience of a tendon being bashed/bruised with no strain/pull or tear and returning back to work? Apologies for all the questions but I just have a niggling doubt with the vet atm.