Banged Tendons

[Christmas Crumpet]

Does anyone have any experience of a horse bashing one of their front legs and bruising the tendon and if so, what is the course of treatment?

We have come to the conclusion that that is what the pony must have done. It would explain the random scabby bit - i.e she banged it hunting on Sat, slightly split the skin which then got covered in nasty mud and came up with mud fever. The lameness has now gone and she was taken out for an amble this morning mostly walking with a bit of trot. She trotted up fine afterwards. We just want to make sure that we aren't going to do any further damage to the leg if we continue exercising her. She will not be going hunting for a couple of weeks. She is not sore at all on the leg, the mud fever scabs have gone with the aid of Sudocrem and Fucidin applied after the scabs had gone.

Any advice would be very gratefully received.

Thanks.

 

[neigh]

If I thought it was anything to do with the tendon, I would get the leg scanned, just in case. Thats just my opinion though.

I hope your horsie is ok.

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

I would take to the vets and get it scanned just to be completely sure- if you go to them then its not expensive- I had a horse with exactly the same situation and from the scan, he had damaged his check ligament but was sound- if i had gone back to hunting i could have completely f**ked his leg

 

[kerilli]

yep, had a mare do this xc years ago. got her scanned, it showed bruising on the tendon. this is no way as bad as a pull (i think the fibres get squashed together by the bang, rather than pulled out of crimp by a pull, if you know what i mean). the mare had a lot of walking, a lot more scans, and after about 6 months went back into full work, and stood up to full work (Advanced eventing) for years and years, the leg never caused a problem again.
however, my vet was very cautious and we treated it as if it had been a pull.
as there may already be slight damage there (will show up on a scan), putting the pony back into fast work too soon might lead to serious damage.