Annular ligament damage/manica flexoria

[BucksFizz]

Not quite the same but my mare injured her ddft and had it operated on in November last year. To access the tendon they had to cut the annular ligament. She was a strange case as she had a swollen tendon sheath for 6 months with no lameness and nothing showed up on scans. She then went lame approx 1-2/10. When they got in there an adhesion had ruptured which is probably what caused the lameness, but the surgeon was shocked she had been sound before.
Recovery was 3 weeks total box rest then hand walking for 6 weeks at increasing to 30 mins, she was great in the stable and pretty good to walk. I then hacked on the roads for 6 weeks which was pretty awful. She then had a check up and was sound so I then had to start trotting and light schooling for 4 weeks and then turn out in a small pen with riding for 4 weeks. The pen was then increased in size until she was in a field during this time she had 6 weeks off.
Then came in and have been slowly getting her fit. She is now cantering and doing pole work. Vet has said she can jump, but I am too worried, though I will have to bite the bullet at some point.
The "controlled exercise" was to help with adhesion formation. They will form, but this should make them long and thin so less likely to rupture. The leg looks pretty horrible, but she is sound.
Sorry this was a bit of an essay and possibly not that relevant to your case ��

Hi, that's great glad you are at the stage of getting her fit again. Hope you have many more years of fun together! I don't think that my mare will ever be ridden again which is so upsetting but of course I'm happy that she's still here with me - my vets had pretty much run out of ideas to help her and the thought of losing her was unbearable. I'm sure we can find other ways to have fun in the future

 

[Lyndab22]

When she was lame, did she stand resting her toe upwards , or stand and walk on foot normally, mines back to toe resting, I know it’s early days and he only had the op on the 20august. But he goes from standing and walking ok to , standing with toe up! Not sure if it’s cos he’s stuck in still on box rest with inhand walking , and is just resting it in general , but I was hoping he wud be more or less standing ok