Arcequine - further questions

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Further to the previous thread I was wondering if anyone had “before” and “after” scans/x-rays etc relating to their use of Arcequine that they wouldn’t mind sharing/PMing.

Based on the previous Arcequine thread I’m assuming that the injuries listed involved using a vet and I’m curious as to any follow up. I know there was the story of the eventer who’s pelvis injury (iirc) healed remarkably and this was shown on x-ray; does anyone have equine examples they’d be willing to share?

For example in navicular “changes” cases has the bone remodelled/changes been apparent on follow up x-rays? Have scans for tendons and ligaments shown improvements that have exceeded veterinary expectations? So on and so forth...

I’ve contacted Ian to ask the same thing but here is probably the easiest way to “speak” to people who have actually used it.

As an aside does anyone use it just for general stiffness and have you noticed a difference?

Thank you in advance for your help :)
 
I can let you know on Monday!
My horse was kicked on Christmas day and 40% severed his Achilles. He has worn the Arc machine, under Ian's advice, everyday since. The vet is coming on Monday to scan so I will know then if the healing has exceeded expectation.
As an aside, the cut has healed very well, and he has been 'relatively' calm on his enforced box rest!
 
Sorry to hijack your thread OP but I also have a question that I have been pondering over. My boy has had surgery to his hind suspensories, if I used the arc equine would it be suitable? Just thinking that if it encourages repair would it also encourage nerve regrowth which would then undo the surgery?? If anyone has used it post surgery I would be interested to hear how they got on.
 
I started the original thread on this and I'm hoping we will be able to get our mare scanned very shortly to see if there's been any difference. The only thing that's delaying us getting it done now is I need to clear my vet's bill for the original scan and treatment when she first went lame - unfortunately as we're no longer covered by insurance we're having to foot the bill

We know the original scan showed scar tissue on her back suspensory, so we will be hoping the new scan will show a marked improvement. All I can give feed back on is our mare's improved temperament (as I remarked in the other thread). Considering she's effectively been on box rest (with managed exercise only) she's remarkably chilled.

We're now on a maintenance programme - the mare is walking extremely well and after taking advice from Ian, we will be introducing trott work in the next couple of weeks. To be honest we're taking everything very slowly as we just don't want anything to go wrong.
 
Hi

I used the Arc Equine on my pony.
She was diagnosed with "digital synovitus" (sp!), after being intermittently lame. The scan before the use of the AE showed lots of adhesions and fibrous tissue forming in her fetlock, causing pain, inflammation and heat. The vet basically told us to retire her and that she was "finished". She is 17 and has only done low level dressage for the last 2 years due the mysterious lameness.

We then decided to give the AE a try, as one last effort. During and after the 10 weeks we noticed a considerable difference in the leg visually and to the touch (she was still doing a little walking in hand and hacking as Ian suggested). The pony came sound and after a good few months of getting back to fitness and affiliated competing again we went for a follow up scan.

The scan revelled a much cleaner picture this time, nice even lines, generally a lot tidier. It appears the AE has broken down much of the adhesions (scar tissue) as we hoped.
The vet was extremely impressed and said that the leg was the best he had ever seen/felt during the time he had worked with her :) He even commented on an improvement in her general movement.

The pony has been sound ever since (last scan was some time in October). She has been competing and feels better then ever.

The AE really has been a bit of a miracle in my opinion so far. I would recommend it to anyone. It just requires patience and good management. If ever I feel the pony has worked a little harder or the leg feels a little puffy or warm, the AE can be popped back on for a week and I am confident that it will help her.

Hope this helps :)
 
Hi. Many thanks for "telling your story". It is much appreciated by me, and I hope that it is of interest, and use, to others. There is "a larger" thread on another Forum and I was wondering if you could possibly re-post there? The thread is "H&H ArcEquine Forum".
 
Hello. Sorry this is probably a stupid question but does the AE work on fractures? My boy has fractured C4 and is currently on box rest.
Looking for anything that will help his recovery.
 
I have an arc equine machine for my 8 yo Holsteiner. He had a reflected tear of the medial meniscus on his left stifle and was operated on twice at Rossdales. He had PRP and stem cell treatment.
He was so sore after the surgery and much much lamer, too lame even to turn out and retire. Cortisone injections and bute had no effect on the swelling and the joint was completely unstable. Vets wrote him off.
I was in despair and then a physio put me in contact with Ian from Arc Equine. He came to see me with a machine and saved my horse (and as a result my marriage!). Within 4 days of being on the machine he was sound enough to have small paddock turnout and now, some 9 months later, is back in full work.
I have since lent the machine to a horse with a huge tear in its check ligament and 12 weeks later it scanned completely healed.
Used it on my son's tendonitis and my daughter's acne and my husband borrows it for his back pain (have to pick the shavings off). Truly an amazing and versatile technology. Now have a horse in with inflammatory bowel disease and am going to try it on him.

Apparently micro current therapy stimulates collagen production too, so should probably be using it on myself.
 
I'm just waiting for our vet to email through the scan pictures to me (we had a rescan done on Monday) which I'm hoping to forward onto Ian.

We all stood around while vet scanned the leg (me, husband, daughter and her boyfriend who's also her farrier) along with a vet nurse and the vet made some encouraging noises. He then compared the two scans together. Everyone else seemed to know what they were looking at apart from me - so in "blonde fashion" (according to my husband!) I said - "sorry what am I looking at?" Basically in the original ultrasound scan there was a lot empty blackness (which is the only way I can describe it) - however on the latest scan there was a lot of white lines, which the vet said was the replaced tissue. He said there was some scar tissue visible, but whereas he would have been concerned to see that in a tendon, he wasn't concerned to see it in the ligament. My husband did ask if this scar tissue meant there would be a weakness there and the vet said no.

I put a similar update on the other thread but basically the vet said to continue building our mare back up gradually. We told him we had used the ARC and would continue to do so and basically his reply was - I don't know what it does, how it does it, but if it's helping - keep doing it!
 
That's great news Kosmic Arab! I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will never need an ArcEquine, but if B ever broke it would be the first thing I would get after reading all the reviews!
 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I was wondering if anyone does, or knows anyone who hires out arcequine units? I do know that someone somewhere had suggested that ArcEquine were considering it. However, there's nothing on the website about it. To be vulgar and to the point, I can't afford to buy one right now but could stretch to hire.

I've a number of posts in V&H about it, so won't go into too much detail here, but my boy has a significant tear to the left hind suspensory ligament coupled with a crushed lumbosacral joint. He has just about been written off because of both, but I owe it to him to try and see if we can't get it better. I lost my TB in March last year to a shredded SI joint and two horses in a row is breaking me. Many thanks indeed.
 
I had one for my mare and have no doubt it gave us a extra 6 months before her arthritis became too painful. I now use it on me for this last week I have has muscular pain in my back went to use the arc and I had let it go flat so used it this am and have gone from being so stiff I could barely move to having no discomfort at all. I think it is a great bit of kit.
 
I'm waiting for scans to be emailed through from my vet.

My mare was diagnosed with suspensory desmitis of medial branch in her right hind.
Initial scan - no holes, tiny amount of fibre loss, ligament twice the size of the other.
3 lots of SW, cold water spa for first 6 weeks, then AE on for 6 weeks. She was on box rest for 4 weeks at the start, although was out of the box daily going to the spa. Been walking inhand or ponied off another horse since then.
Re-scan at 12 weeks and ligament is completely healed - vet was amzed at the speed of healing.
Now done a week walking in a ho lunge aid to build up her top line a bit and has been ridden for the last few days for 15 mins in walk. Just building up the work slowly and goes for another scan at the end of March.
 
cloffy said:
I have an arc equine machine for my 8 yo Holsteiner. He had a reflected tear of the medial meniscus on his left stifle and was operated on twice at Rossdales. He had PRP and stem cell treatment.
He was so sore after the surgery and much much lamer, too lame even to turn out and retire. Cortisone injections and bute had no effect on the swelling and the joint was completely unstable. Vets wrote him off.
I was in despair and then a physio put me in contact with Ian from Arc Equine. He came to see me with a machine and saved my horse (and as a result my marriage!). Within 4 days of being on the machine he was sound enough to have small paddock turnout and now, some 9 months later, is back in full work.
I have since lent the machine to a horse with a huge tear in its check ligament and 12 weeks later it scanned completely healed.
Used it on my son's tendonitis and my daughter's acne and my husband borrows it for his back pain (have to pick the shavings off). Truly an amazing and versatile technology. Now have a horse in with inflammatory bowel disease and am going to try it on him.

Apparently micro current therapy stimulates collagen production too, so should probably be using it on myself.
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I know this is an old thread but did this horse stay sound?
 
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