bone chip?

DawnR

DawnR

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sorry if this is in the wrong bit, but my horse was x rayed on friday for a possible bone chip and i will know the results monday (tomorrow) i was just wondering has anyone elses horses had a bone chip before? and what is the recovery time??

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My horse had one in her fetlock which was removed by keyhole surgery. Recovery was quick, stitches out then field rest for a couple of weeks then back into gentle work. Could hardly see where the stitches had been.
 
Yes, my horse had lots!! but a couple of bigger ones that had to be removed. He had a fractured leg and the chips were fragments from that. His were in a really dodgy place, mm's from his carpal sheath?? so vet decided to leave them in as they can in time disolve. Anyway one of them abcessed and had to be removed. There was no real time off work, he was heavily sedated due to where it was and once out, he was fine.
 
Yep :) 4 HUGE chips on hocks (two in each) which had to be removed surgically. Box rest for 5 weeks, field rest for five weeks then back into work. She has made a 100% recovery :D

J&C
 
My boy had one and a hugely swollen hock after a kick. The chip was removed and he was rested for 3 months (6 weeks box rest, then 6 weeks increasing paddock size very slowly). Is now sound but his hock is still swollen and he has a bog spavin. He is still reluctant to have that leg lifted for hoof picking, but I think it is due to memory of the pain more than anything. I am schooling him for 45 minutes 3 - 4 times a week and he's doing well.
 
yep- a couple of winters ago my boy got kicked in the field, resulting in a hairline fracture. just after he'd recovered, got kicked again on the opposite fore resulting in sequestration.

took him to horspital where the vet cut into his leg and scraped out the chip (cue me turning green and nearly passing out!)

horse had 4 weeks BR (I think, could have been less) and then turned out & brought back into work over 6 weeks or so.

the good (?!) thing about bone injuries (vs eg tendon injuries) is that once it's healed, it doesn't predispose the horse to the same injury again. hope yours is ok.

ps-there's a vet board on the forum so you might get some good responses in there too
 
My horse had a chipped pedal bone, he went through key hole surgery, but was poorly after so was in their intensive care unit for 5days. When home he had to stay on box rest for 3mths (for the first 3wks I couldnt even get him out to muck out). I was able to start working him after the 3mths in walk only starting with 20mins building him up to 40mins over the next 3mths. I have just started trotting with him. I think it depends on how bad the chipped bone is
 
My horse Misfit has just come back from surgery to remove a sequestrum which appeared after he was operated on twice to remove bone chips following some mysterious injury in the field - a really tiny puncture just above his fetlock.

Initially the first op to remove the chip was fine, he should have recovered within a week or so but he was still lame. More xrays showed another tiny chip so they operated on that too. Still lame, more xrays, and voila the sequestrum had started to form. He was left on box rest for approx 4 weeks until it was the right time to operate again. It turns out that he had a huge absess under the sequestrum, at the bottom on his cannon bone.

The op site looks horrific but I am told he should return to full soundness. So he's had two weeks box rest since the op, and tomorrow he gets (heavily sedated:D) turnout on his own in the school and we plan to build it up from there if all goes well.

I think we were unlucky that it all went the way it did, otherwise I think it should have been a relatively quick and simple recovery.

Good luck with yours.
 
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