piaffe
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Im after some stories about check ligament injuries. However, I only really want "happy ever after stories" please to give me some hope!
Please?
Please?
Check ligament injury stories.
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showjump
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I can give you hope! lol!
Well my horse managed to put a 2cm hole in his check around christams last year. One vets missed it all together tho!?
So second vet scanned ect and found it, he said it was one of the best things to injure in the leg, but that my horse had done a very bad job of it! He was on box rest, followed by hacking out with sedation, then light work, built up gradually. He had been back compteing at 1.20m+ level, and being placed again. Although now he has injured his hock!!- bl88dy typical!
Any questions fire away!
Well my horse managed to put a 2cm hole in his check around christams last year. One vets missed it all together tho!?
So second vet scanned ect and found it, he said it was one of the best things to injure in the leg, but that my horse had done a very bad job of it! He was on box rest, followed by hacking out with sedation, then light work, built up gradually. He had been back compteing at 1.20m+ level, and being placed again. Although now he has injured his hock!!- bl88dy typical!
Any questions fire away!
piaffe
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God, poor you.
How long was the box rest?
My mare hasn't been scanned, the vet said to give bute for a week then box rest for 3 weeks and then to introduce work gradually (she's not yet 3 so has only been doing a very tiny bit of work anyway).
Nearly 2 weeks down and there is still swelling (only very very slight) and I am paranoid, totally and utterly paranoid. Im cold hosing and applying cooling gel and walking out in hand.
vet said she could go out on restricted grazing, which she had been doing, but 4 days ago she went MAD
, I think she was bitten by a fly, ran through the tape and went loopy until we could catch her.
Leg doesnt seem any different but im now to scared to put her out.
How long was the box rest?
My mare hasn't been scanned, the vet said to give bute for a week then box rest for 3 weeks and then to introduce work gradually (she's not yet 3 so has only been doing a very tiny bit of work anyway).
Nearly 2 weeks down and there is still swelling (only very very slight) and I am paranoid, totally and utterly paranoid. Im cold hosing and applying cooling gel and walking out in hand.
vet said she could go out on restricted grazing, which she had been doing, but 4 days ago she went MAD
Leg doesnt seem any different but im now to scared to put her out.
showjump
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Tbh i cannot remember, it was all a blur! I think it was afew months, with just hacking out.
My horse still has a slight thickening in that area, but i only notice because i know what he did.
I found when i brought him back to work, that some days i would push too far and so just hack the next day, then go again in the school. I also applied leg ice every day to help.
My horse is a complete nightmare, as in he will be a loon until he has been able to buck and rear and generally get it out of his system.
It is hard to put them out, as you dont want to be back to square one but you will be able to tell if its not healing as it should, it will swell and become sore, so then just ease of the next day. As you say shes only young, i am sure you will never have any probs with it again, and at least she isnt a fit horse. I think the field incident was a one off, i would of expected her to go mad on day one not four.
My horse still has a slight thickening in that area, but i only notice because i know what he did.
I found when i brought him back to work, that some days i would push too far and so just hack the next day, then go again in the school. I also applied leg ice every day to help.
My horse is a complete nightmare, as in he will be a loon until he has been able to buck and rear and generally get it out of his system.
It is hard to put them out, as you dont want to be back to square one but you will be able to tell if its not healing as it should, it will swell and become sore, so then just ease of the next day. As you say shes only young, i am sure you will never have any probs with it again, and at least she isnt a fit horse. I think the field incident was a one off, i would of expected her to go mad on day one not four.
piaffe
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Thanks, feeling better already. I haven't had any experience of ligament damage, its all new to me and Im so so worried.
I am very lucky though as she usually so chilled out. You wouldn't think she is on box rest and, when I turned her out after a few days on box rest she led like a dream and then had a roll and that was it!
thank you
I am very lucky though as she usually so chilled out. You wouldn't think she is on box rest and, when I turned her out after a few days on box rest she led like a dream and then had a roll and that was it!
thank you
showjump
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Arh well then, your half way there! I had all this with a looney tune! He will squeel, and buck in his stable after a week! - We have even had to build him a playpen of his own, for when he get too excitable!
piaffe
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lol.
She has a salt lick, a lickit and her feed in a dechedron (sp)
She has a salt lick, a lickit and her feed in a dechedron (sp)
0ldmare
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Mine did her check ligament - I saw her do it! I was driving down the drive along side her field, she decided to race the car, did a massive loop the loop buck and fell over. One knackered check ligament. Anyway the vet told me to box rest her, but since she is such a worrier we compromised on fencing off the tiniest, weeniest paddock for her. After about a month of that she was sound, but it was mid winter at the time so I turned her away for a couple more months. She is as sound as a brass bell and has been ever since.