Bone Spavin/ Hock Issues

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EmmaKat said:
Thanks very much. I'm just a little bit put of by the prospect of doing any sort of surgery on a four to five year old though.... However, this has popped up so much that I may consider it!
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Yes its much better than the surgery route for a lot of reasons not in this particular order but length of treatment time, time off work, price of treatment, less invasion into the joint, instant pain relief, no box rest (as non steroid), the list goes on and on.

Disadvantages - no room left to put any other treatment into the hock following this treatment i.e. process can never be repeated (shouldn't need to be so long as nerves don't regro) and not all horses can have this treatment - this is dependant on where the contrast dye ends up going prior to the ethanol going in.
 
applecart14 said:
Yes its much better than the surgery route for a lot of reasons not in this particular order but length of treatment time, time off work, price of treatment, less invasion into the joint, instant pain relief, no box rest (as non steroid), the list goes on and on.

Disadvantages - no room left to put any other treatment into the hock following this treatment i.e. process can never be repeated (shouldn't need to be so long as nerves don't regro) and not all horses can have this treatment - this is dependant on where the contrast dye ends up going prior to the ethanol going in.
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Hmm. Seems its a good way to go if the horse is suitable though. Thanks for the info! What age is your horse/ what age at procedure time?
 
I would agree with Vet B. had a horse diagnosed last November , bilateral but worse in off hind. Worked hard, fitted with a small extension of outside of both shoes and rolled toes. No road work as loading toe first intially. Fed 30mg limestone flour and 15mg calcium daily ( two feeds ). NO Bute - it damages the joints and discourages fusing as the pain is what the horse's body responds to. Made that mistake when I broke my back took NSAID's which don't work after a few days and it didn't fuse until I stopped taking them ten years later. horse a little uncomfortable to start with but happy to work. he was away from home when it happened and vet and my blacksmith found a bad medio lateral imbalance in his back feet when he returned, which is a likely cause , so get them to look at his feet very carefully. reshod and rebalanced by my farrier and toes dumped to stop the jarring, horse level after four weeks though still rested hinds alternately. completely sound after 6 months now in hard work and 100% sound, jumping 1.20 plus and winning regularly. Standing four square too. Have not had a horse with spavin before but a friend had in the 70's treated as advised to me by event vet and stayed sound for 10 years show jumping. Good luck and give it time , he has done quite a lot for young horse, and maybe six months of Dr Green and regular hacking out slowly would have the same effect as the more invasive treatments.
 
old hand said:
I would agree with Vet B. had a horse diagnosed last November , bilateral but worse in off hind. Worked hard, fitted with a small extension of outside of both shoes and rolled toes. No road work as loading toe first intially. Fed 30mg limestone flour and 15mg calcium daily ( two feeds ). NO Bute - it damages the joints and discourages fusing as the pain is what the horse's body responds to. Made that mistake when I broke my back took NSAID's which don't work after a few days and it didn't fuse until I stopped taking them ten years later. horse a little uncomfortable to start with but happy to work. he was away from home when it happened and vet and my blacksmith found a bad medio lateral imbalance in his back feet when he returned, which is a likely cause , so get them to look at his feet very carefully. reshod and rebalanced by my farrier and toes dumped to stop the jarring, horse level after four weeks though still rested hinds alternately. completely sound after 6 months now in hard work and 100% sound, jumping 1.20 plus and winning regularly. Standing four square too. Have not had a horse with spavin before but a friend had in the 70's treated as advised to me by event vet and stayed sound for 10 years show jumping. Good luck and give it time , he has done quite a lot for young horse, and maybe six months of Dr Green and regular hacking out slowly would have the same effect as the more invasive treatments.
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Hi there.

I'm inclined to go more with Vet B also, and err on the side of caution. I actually have my dude barefoot as I found he got lazy in his hinds with shoes on, swinging them out slightly, as he is already slightly splay-footed. He did land toe first for a while too, but stopped when I took off the shoes? He is also on a joint supplement that incorporates calcium, though I cant be sure about limestone flour. He's not on Bute, but I had considered it for when he's coming back into work, and have heard that you should give it to them for a while at the start in order to "ride through the pain to help it fuse?"

Funny you should say about human painkillers though, as I tend not to take them when I'm sore as I'm afraid I wont feel pain and will damage my back further?!

He does have a sub-solar abscess (I'm told), from loading onto the fronts to compensate for the hinds. When you say "it happened", do you mean when you noticed it, or did he hit and chip it at an event or....? Also, what do you mean by "dumping" the toes?

He does indeed have a lot done for a young horse, however, I did buy him "as a 6 year old", but it turned out he was only 4. He is now in light hack work, as I collected a loan mare today (try telling him that though, he kicked back at me, bucked, fell over, cantered, and jumped a ground pole like it was 4 foot high)
 
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