Avulsion fragment fracture pelvis

[Pandora1987]

Hello,

Has anyone else had experience with their horse having an avulsion fragment fracture of the pelvis?

We bought our daughter her first pony last year and after a couple of weeks we realised something wasn't quite right as she kept kicking out when under saddle (she passed a 5 stage vetting but our vet said that it was probably a long standing injury that has been aggravated after an increase in workload and was probably never fully given the chance to heal). She was absolutely fine on the ground and was never declared lame. After doing all the usual checks (saddle/back/teeth) we took her to the vets which is where they found that she had an avulsion fragment fracture of the pelvis. She has been scanned multiple times and each time there has been significant improvement but the tendon is still in a bit of a muddle (vets words). Her last scan was in May and we have been told to just hack in walk & trot until October and then have her rescanned to see where we are. She has always been fine of hacks and only ever kicked out & seemed unhappy in the school.

I really just want to know if anyone who has experienced this has successfully rehabbed their horse and what they did specifically during the rehab. I am constantly second guessing myself and wondering if there is more that we could be doing to help aid her recovery.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

 

[JackFrost]

Not quite the answer you are looking for, but I have had an avulsion fracture of the pelvis (me, not the horse) . I get what the vet is saying about the tendon being in a muddle. Once the bone is mended the issue is all the surrounding tissue. I found it was very tight and sort of more solid than before and was very slow to get looser - like years. It needed a lot of gentle persuasion and stretches to loosen and realign the tissue fibres. My osteo says the fibres are still not lined up so smoothly and are a bit tangled/dense.
For a horse, I think ground work exercises and massage would be good. In the early period after doing it, some movements would cause it to catch on the injured area with a sort of slight stabbing pain, so maybe something like that is what your horse is feeling.
I do consider it though to be completely mended now for all functional purposes.

 

[Pandora1987]

Not quite the answer you are looking for, but I have had an avulsion fracture of the pelvis (me, not the horse) . I get what the vet is saying about the tendon being in a muddle. Once the bone is mended the issue is all the surrounding tissue. I found it was very tight and sort of more solid than before and was very slow to get looser - like years. It needed a lot of gentle persuasion and stretches to loosen and realign the tissue fibres. My osteo says the fibres are still not lined up so smoothly and are a bit tangled/dense.
For a horse, I think ground work exercises and massage would be good. In the early period after doing it, some movements would cause it to catch on the injured area with a sort of slight stabbing pain, so maybe something like that is what your horse is feeling.
I do consider it though to be completely mended now for all functional purposes.

Thank you so so much for your response I’m so glad to hear that you have made a good recovery.

Massage sounds like a great idea & definitely something we will look into, I really appreciate you reaching out & your suggestion. Xx