toddles
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Long story looking for hope. My horse who was 7 went lame last year vets diagnosed hock spavins in both. He had tildren and steroid injections. He then went lame in both front feet. After nerve blocks he was xrayed which showed nothing significant. He then went for MRI which showed inflammation to the coffin joint, pedal bone and collateral ligaments in both front feet and medial lateral imbalance He then had steroid injections in both feet and corrective shoeing at the vets this consisted of a gel sole pack and heart bad to help him land level. He improved a little but not fully. He then had irap treatment which seemed to help massively. Fast forward to January when my Farrier took over shoeing him he went back lame again and back to the vets he went they injected his hocks again and he appeared sound. Great I thought then he went lame in front again so back again to vets. We decided to do an MRI again on left fore as this is what he appeared lame on and the report came back as Conclusions:
Osteoarthritis and synovitis of the left distal interphalangeal joint with namely a large cartilage erosion
laterally. No definite evidence of collateral desmopathy today.
Mild navicular bursitis without evidence of flexor tendinopathy.
So another steroid into left for horse again sound back into work. Then lame again this time on right fore. Back to vets and right fore injected. New Farrier has put sport horse shoes on him and at first he was ok now back to being very lame and dont know what to do next. On all kinds of supplements nothing seems to work should I call it a day as I hate seeing him like this and I couldnt just keep him as a field pet as he doesnt like staying out long especially in the winter he just wants to be in. Sorry for the long post
Osteoarthritis and synovitis of the left distal interphalangeal joint with namely a large cartilage erosion
laterally. No definite evidence of collateral desmopathy today.
Mild navicular bursitis without evidence of flexor tendinopathy.
So another steroid into left for horse again sound back into work. Then lame again this time on right fore. Back to vets and right fore injected. New Farrier has put sport horse shoes on him and at first he was ok now back to being very lame and dont know what to do next. On all kinds of supplements nothing seems to work should I call it a day as I hate seeing him like this and I couldnt just keep him as a field pet as he doesnt like staying out long especially in the winter he just wants to be in. Sorry for the long post