After hock and back treatment- still no change- Very dispondent....

[charlie76]

A horse I ride has been having behaviour problems and began stopping dead and rearing. I had the vet out to him who diagnoised hock and back pain. I have had his hocks and back injected with steriods and also has been having physio weekly including deep physio under sedation. I have been woking him long and low on the lunge and following both vets and physio instructions with the work load. I rode him on Monday and Tuesday this week and was very disapointed to find he was still the same. If I used by leg, seat or hand a little stronger to send him on he would stop dead and rear. I am at a loss as where to go now.
Any ideas???

 

[aran]

you need to get the vet back out as the treatment has obviously not helped - did they diagnose what was causing the pain?
you may need to get a referal to a specialist (Liphook or RVC)
in the hocks i presume its spavin? if so most horses do not respond to steriods and so you will need to try something else (adequan, tildren, surgery).
in the back - was it kissing spines? if so there have been lots of posts about different treatments.

 

[vicijp]

Was the back and hock problem properly diagnosed or do you have a jab happy vet? How long since the injections? How much total rest after the injections? What was thought to be the cause? Have you had teeth done?
TBH, I wouldnt even consider lungeing a horse with hock problems but there you go.
How old is the horse and what was his workload before the behaviour change? If relatively young, further investigation and prolonged rest could be the answer.
Please think things through if the vet wants to inject again - these things mask the problem to start with, but really it is just worsening all the time.

 

[charlie76]

Just to clarify, was seen ridden and lunged before treatment. He was also xrayed both on his back and both hocks.

Intially the thought was that it was just a back problem but after this didn't resolve through injections and physio it was investegated further and this the showed the hind limb(1/10th) lameness up resulting in xrays, nerve block and injections plus more physio. Lunging long and low is to build up his top line( as he is lacking this) and his back muscles.

 

[Lynz25]

My horse started stopping whilst jumping last year and eventually went lame. He had ciropractic treatment which only helped in the short term when his back was stiff he then went lame. We had him referrred to Rossdales at Newmarket and they do loads of tests to diagnose whats happened. In the end it was bilateral suspensory ligament damage. I would ask for the horse to be investiagted further. I'm afraid x-rays will only show up bony damage or if there is gross swelling.