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Have peoples experiences with blown tendons.

How their horses recovered and dealt with the box rest, and also how useful the horses were afterwards and what you could do with them. Did they make a full recovery or were they restircted in anyway.

All the experiences I have had with blown tendons have been eithers racers PPTS) or leisure horses that were not ridden or excersiced except in the field as part of a herd.

I did have one horse who was also PTS with a blown tendon as the horse wouldnt let the wound heal and eventually couldnt stand or use the leg. So my experiences of the aftercare and recovery are limited.

Thank you
 
have a little read at this artical its pretty good

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/horsecare/1370/48180.html

xxx J

My horse has a tear in her deep digital flexor tendon. She has been box rested for over 2 months and has just been aloud back out to graze. She is still intermitantly lame (but very slight) she is happier haven box rested .

she is getting at least 1 year off work. however i dont think we will ever be able to bring her back to full work and compete, she was at newcomers level but had so much talent( she is only 7). I just could not live with myself if the tear heeled and then was competing and did more damage, i would rather she recovered and just had a nice quiet life.

very very sad
 
Vet said I may be looking at a year off :(

has anyone else had any issues? I mean come on with a board this big surely more than two people have had tendon issues or can anyone point me in the direction of more threads??

Or is it that Im so hated that people wont help my horse ;)
 
I think you need to explain a bit more about the injury your horse has,the last report was about a swollen chest and i think she had done the splits??
Has she now been scanned with tendon damage?
Horses can come back to full work following some types of injury it does depend on degree, age of the horse may also be taken into account.
I am sure people will give you more advice maybe a different title would help get more views.
 
First of all - has the tendon been scanned? If so how extensive is the damage? Also is the DDFT or the SDFT?

DDFT's are harder to fix in that they may never regain full strength and thus the work load of the horse in the future will be compromised. Many do mke full recoveries and carry on to be normal horses with careful care and management to work load, the type of ground they are worked on and the program of work they follow.

SDFT's are easier to fix and have a brighter outlook in the future - all depending on how much damage there was in the first place. Same with the DDFT's you would need to be careful of what you do and the ground you work on.

With careful management plenty of Racehorses go on to race again up to their prefvious levels after tendon injuries - Imperial Commander won the Gold Cup after an inury. Inglis Dreaver won the World Hurdle after such an injury. Full work can be resumed very carefully - tendon injuries aren't the end of the world.

The usual form for any tendon injury is 7 days cold hosing 4x a day then wrapped up in a big 3 layer stookies on box rest for 3 months, then 3 months gentle in-hand walking building up the length of time you walk for. Then 3 months turned away in a field to chill out then 3 months to build up the work load again carefully. After a year you should be able to resume doing everything you did previously.

If you mean a complete rupture of the tendon then you are looking at a very long road to recovery and a very compromised working future for your horse.
 
Sorry to hear about your horse, I can only relate my experience, which may not be relevant.

My mare did a deep digital tendon a few years ago, she didn't cope with box rest and was risking doing further damage by rearing etc.

On vets recommendation she was turned into a small paddock area that was gradually extended to field size. She was turned away for two years but became completely sound and returned to full work.
 
be positive said:
I think you need to explain a bit more about the injury your horse has,the last report was about a swollen chest and i think she had done the splits??
Has she now been scanned with tendon damage?
Horses can come back to full work following some types of injury it does depend on degree, age of the horse may also be taken into account.
I am sure people will give you more advice maybe a different title would help get more views.
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Thank you, she will be scanned on wednesday, the vet is brining the ultrasound to me as he doesnt want her travelled.

She was galloping when she either slipped or spooked and then slipped and did the front splits, never went down but tried to keep galloping and it was another 200 yards before i could pull her up despite being very sore. I was 4/5 miles from home and had to walk her all the way back as we were in the middle of a nature reserve/forest

Chest swelled first then legs went up but vet said it was swelling from the chest releasing chest went down but leg stayed up cue another vet visit and after feeling and palpatating he diagnosed bloen tendon. Told me min a months box rest, asked if i shoud have bandaged it he told me makes no difference but bandage the other three legs to support and gave me bute, not to be walked or turned out atall (I have to tkae her out to muck her out but thats it)

EKW said:
First of all - has the tendon been scanned? If so how extensive is the damage? Also is the DDFT or the SDFT?

DDFT's are harder to fix in that they may never regain full strength and thus the work load of the horse in the future will be compromised. Many do mke full recoveries and carry on to be normal horses with careful care and management to work load, the type of ground they are worked on and the program of work they follow.

SDFT's are easier to fix and have a brighter outlook in the future - all depending on how much damage there was in the first place. Same with the DDFT's you would need to be careful of what you do and the ground you work on.

With careful management plenty of Racehorses go on to race again up to their prefvious levels after tendon injuries - Imperial Commander won the Gold Cup after an inury. Inglis Dreaver won the World Hurdle after such an injury. Full work can be resumed very carefully - tendon injuries aren't the end of the world.

The usual form for any tendon injury is 7 days cold hosing 4x a day then wrapped up in a big 3 layer stookies on box rest for 3 months, then 3 months gentle in-hand walking building up the length of time you walk for. Then 3 months turned away in a field to chill out then 3 months to build up the work load again carefully. After a year you should be able to resume doing everything you did previously.

If you mean a complete rupture of the tendon then you are looking at a very long road to recovery and a very compromised working future for your horse.
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Thank you VERY much for the aboe information, I appreciated it, easy to understand and detailed :)

touchstone said:
Sorry to hear about your horse, I can only relate my experience, which may not be relevant.

My mare did a deep digital tendon a few years ago, she didn't cope with box rest and was risking doing further damage by rearing etc.

On vets recommendation she was turned into a small paddock area that was gradually extended to field size. She was turned away for two years but became completely sound and returned to full work.
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Thank you, my mare doesnt cope with box rest, weaves so thats not going to help the tendon at all. Will be discussing more indepth with the vet on wednesday in regards to boxrest, shoes and timescales once he knows the extent of the damage.
 
My mare, as a foal, sethered her tendon and made a huge hole in it, she had the tendon scanned and was immediately sent away for hydrotherapy.

It was a long long process she spend about 3 months away from home having hydrotherapy and on full box rest, then came home and was on box rest with controlled in-hand walking several times a day (easier said than done with a yearling who was by know full of herself). We also used magnet therapy boots on her once the external wound had healed.

We walked her in hand for about 12 weeks in total then she was allowed out a little bit at a time in the arena, and finally in the field, took about 9 months in total. She still has a scar where she sliced through her tendon, vets werent sure if she'd ever be sound but she was. And is in full work. Hopefully she will remain so.

Good luck x
 
A old horse of mine blow her tendon, I was debating that she needed a slower pace of life anyway, I got her sound and sold her on, since then she has done the same thing another 2 times. Lucky though she's a useful soul babysitting the foals and traveling compaion etc,
 
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