Halfpass
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Quick Update on Aleeta:-
She had her remedial shoes fitted just over a week ago. Re xrayed and farrier had fitted them with the breakover point exactly as it should be. Trotted up at vets and announced as sound!!!
Vet advised to begin ridden work and start off slowly walking for 5 mins and building the walk up over a period of 4 weeks to half an hour.
Got on her on monday and she just wasn't right. Wouldn't stand to be mounted, this just isn't like her as she normally stands until asked to move. Once on she shot forwards and up the lane which again is totally out of character. As I said in my last post due to my back problems and feeling unable to hold her if she did something silly I got straight off.
I spoke to the vet and we decided to get a physio out to see her as obviosuly now with the raised heels she is walking very differently.
So physio came out yesterday and watched her lunged in walk and trot. She announced that she was still 3/10 lames on her near hind and would probably be more if her off hind was nerve blocked meaning she is still probably lame on both hinds. She is very tight on the nearside of her back and had lots of problems in the pelvic area. Physio was shocked at how awful her movement was as she was expecting a really big warmblood movement from her. On the plus side her movement infront was great, it just looks like a different horse behind!!!
I understand that this could be due to her pedal bone problems but the physio also warned me that it could be something else entirley
So physio has said do not ride and she needs to have icepacks on everyday and do some carrot stretches too.
I am in the middle of doctoring a fleece to put pockets in it that can hold ice packs on her back for 15mins.
My poor poor baby, she is just so accepting of everything she must be in so much pain but is just getting on with it and not causing a fuss at all.
Does anyone have any experience of these kind of problems and has physio really helped. I just have this gut feeling that there is something else that the vet hasn't found and that I am going to be left with a 4 year old that isn't capable of anything
We just have Spike sound after his KS op in march and is signed off from the physio and vet and now this...... what next?? Maybe I should just give up before anything really major happens................................................
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She had her remedial shoes fitted just over a week ago. Re xrayed and farrier had fitted them with the breakover point exactly as it should be. Trotted up at vets and announced as sound!!!
Vet advised to begin ridden work and start off slowly walking for 5 mins and building the walk up over a period of 4 weeks to half an hour.
Got on her on monday and she just wasn't right. Wouldn't stand to be mounted, this just isn't like her as she normally stands until asked to move. Once on she shot forwards and up the lane which again is totally out of character. As I said in my last post due to my back problems and feeling unable to hold her if she did something silly I got straight off.
I spoke to the vet and we decided to get a physio out to see her as obviosuly now with the raised heels she is walking very differently.
So physio came out yesterday and watched her lunged in walk and trot. She announced that she was still 3/10 lames on her near hind and would probably be more if her off hind was nerve blocked meaning she is still probably lame on both hinds. She is very tight on the nearside of her back and had lots of problems in the pelvic area. Physio was shocked at how awful her movement was as she was expecting a really big warmblood movement from her. On the plus side her movement infront was great, it just looks like a different horse behind!!!
I understand that this could be due to her pedal bone problems but the physio also warned me that it could be something else entirley
So physio has said do not ride and she needs to have icepacks on everyday and do some carrot stretches too.
I am in the middle of doctoring a fleece to put pockets in it that can hold ice packs on her back for 15mins.
My poor poor baby, she is just so accepting of everything she must be in so much pain but is just getting on with it and not causing a fuss at all.
Does anyone have any experience of these kind of problems and has physio really helped. I just have this gut feeling that there is something else that the vet hasn't found and that I am going to be left with a 4 year old that isn't capable of anything
We just have Spike sound after his KS op in march and is signed off from the physio and vet and now this...... what next?? Maybe I should just give up before anything really major happens................................................
Cookies to those that have bothered reading my whiney post