Annular Ligament Operation

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Following lameness investigation's my horse was sent to Liphook for a bone scan. Vet at Liphhok was very confident that we wouldn't need a bone scan once she had seen the horse move. She quickly decided is was her annular ligament but would do test's to confirm.
All test's confirmed and my horse will be operated on this week.
Although the vet has given me a brief outline of how we proceed afterwards I'm just after people's opinons who have been in the same situation on after care and how slower they are brought back into work- obviously working on the best case scenario. Thank's in advance
 
My horse was operated on 18 months ago by bBorton Vale. He was initially diagnosed in late July 2015 and was operated on in early October 2015. As I no longer compete it was decided initially to take a "watch and wait" scenario following initial box rest.

Following the op he was in horsepital for about a week tnen returned home for about 1 month box rest followed by an increasing amount of torn out. I began to ride him in February 2016. He is still v slightly lame -about 1/10 but how much that is either mechanical or proprioception who knows. Vet is happy enough with him - we did a bute trial which made no difference to him at all. He has multiple other issues -PPID, Gastric ulcers to name but a few but he's still with me! Best of luck!
 
Our horse had op 6 years ago. Took him swimming and slow build up. He went back to competing and retired 1yr ago aged 21. He was doing Medium dressage when retired. He retired due to Cushings. Only time it ever bothered him was if we lunged him. So we stopped doing that! Good luck.
 
My then 19 year old had an annular ligament op 3 years ago this year. He had both hinds done plus platelet rich plasma therapy on his distal sesamoidian ligament.

He was on box rest with hand grazing a couple of times a day for the first two weeks. Then box rest with in-hand walking starting at 5 minutes a day to 30 minutes a day over about 6 weeks. He then was turned out in a small pen in his field for about another 6 weeks gradually making it bigger and then started riding again building up gradually. I decided to retire him from schooling and now just hack but he is sound enough to school if I wanted to but at 22 I think he deserves not to and he doesn't enjoy it.
 
The Liphook vet sounds rather spectacular. I think a name would be worth mentioning. My experience of this procedure is pretty positive outcomes. Good luck.
 
Horse had operation today, was meant to be done by key hole surgery but due to the problem being so bad ended up opening her up as they couldn't get the scopes through. Annual ligament was extremely tight has caused some fraying of the tendons.
Trying to see the positive as it could of been a lot worse.
Before her op she was 6/10ths lame hopefully we should she a massive improvement.
Jane Boswell is the vet, she's been absolutely brilliant!
Can't wait to go see her tomorrow, it's horrible seeing her empty stable.
 
Hope all goes well. My boy's op was like that - had to open his leg up more than usual but he pulled through fine . It did mea n he had to stay in horsepital for 8 days rather than usual 3 or dàys.
 
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