Capped hock - pile cream??!!

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She came in a day or so ago with a hock the size of a small country, so I'm hosing it for 20 minutes every day, and while googling for alternative treatments I came across a suggestion that pile cream would help the swelling go down.

Has anyone tried it? I want to be sure there's a chance before I embarrass myself buying a tube!

Oh yes, and any other suggestions to help her would be welcome - there's no sign of a wound, she isn't lame and doesn't mind having it prodded.
 
I have never heard of any successful treatment for a capped hock other than time but if you can cope with buying some pile cream and I don't see why not, then it can't do any harm ! Probably won't do any good either .....
 
I think the main active ingredient in pile cream is hirudin, an anticoagulant derived from leeches.
It might help to disperse a haematoma but probably not a bursa.

No personal experience of this product!
 
I did try that. Didn't really make a difference. I put up bigger banks and hock boots which helped the most, though I really did get through the boots quickly. Oh and yes...it WAS embarrassing. You can't say it's for a horse or they won't sell it to you .......!!!
 
dont waste your time


mine has 2 caps hocks...did pile cream, physio, vet , x-rays [check for chips], cold hosing and nothing work.

I now give her a huge bed and accept that showing was never on our to do list.......

They have gone down a lot now but still fluidy..... its a shame but one of those things im afraid...

she fell on concrete btw.... which is why she has them - shes fine and never been lame- but they are awful.
 
Well it's still wobbly, and doesn't seem to be going down, but then it's not getting any bigger either, and there's no heat there at all.

I'm undecided whether to get the vet to have a look, though some people tell me there's not a lot can be done, apart from draining it, and even then, it might come back up. She's not lame, and it doesn't seem to be bothering her, judging by the speed she bombed down the field when I turned her out this afternoon.

She's not being ridden at the moment for various reasons, and some people have said that a bit of gentle work won't do her any harm.

I wish I knew how she'd done it - she's at grass at the moment, so hasn't done it in the stable, she might have knocked it on something in the field, got up awkwardly, and I'm 99% sure she hasn't been kicked. She did join a new herd a couple of weeks ago and took a good while to settle, and was being chased quite a bit, but things have calmed down to the point where she seems to be taking over the herd.

Can they cap their hocks b******ing around?
 
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