Current horse related injuries.

[Elf On A Shelf]

What injuries are you currently sporting from horses? It's the time of year where clipping is under way, it's getting a bit colder and horses are feeling the autumn nip and getting a tad bit fresh because of it.

2 weeks ago I got kicked just above the knee clipping. It was point blank range so it just gave me a dead leg and a sore muscle for a few days. I barely even got a bruise for my efforts! I was most disappointed! A few days later the tendon/ligament that runs down the outside of my knee got very sore and still is so I am assuming it got stretched and pulled a bit when I got booted. So that was me lame on my right leg on the Monday.

Tuesday a horse stood on my toes and twisted before getting off. Just the little toe and the one next to it. That was sore! And of course it couldn't be the same leg that got kicked! Oh no! It was the other one so come Tuesday afternoon I was bilaterally lame ?

The thigh musle injury eased off after a couple of days, it just got sore if I stretched the muscle. My toes on the other hand turned every colour under the sun and were sore for ages! Roll on to today, 2 weeks after the initial injuries and my little toe has finally dropped enough swelling to allow me to poke, prod and wiggle it by hand. I shouldn't have wiggled it ?? I think it may be slightly broken! It goes "pop" every time I wiggle it one way the pops to wiggle it back again. I can feel and and her it pop - almost like when you click a joint of something kind of pop and stiff movement ?

Oh well! Not a lot I can do about it! The toe is still straight so no one would do anything anyway. I can't run on it and I can't walk down hill very well but otherwise its grand ?

 

[RHM]

Haha you sound fairly lame!

I’m sporting a couple of ligament tears in my ankle at the moment thanks to me and my horse parting ways XC. We had a difference of opinion at a drop into water. Though it’s been three weeks and I managed to get a shoe on for the first time yesterday!! Progress indeed!

 

[Tracking_up]

Sore back and sore right back of pelvis, having landed on the hip when falling off 3 weeks ago. Getting too old to fall off, and had fallen off nearly 6 weeks prior to this, which ended up in A & E having knocked myself out....

The second fall had me in lots of pain with my back in spasm, which is now 'merely' isolated pain!! Waiting until my Osteo can fit me in.... today has been the first day without pain killers (Ibroprofen and paracetamol)

 

[twiggy2]

I don't sport horse related injuries these days (I am planning to change that asap), I do however get far more injuries from the sheep than I ever got from the horses.
My legs are often multi coloured due to blackie lambs, they go away for the winter come October so the last of those for 2022 have gone.
We have to sort all the tups for going out with the ewes in a couple of weeks and that can be interesting if we find we have added any sporting or stroppy types, especially if they have horns.

 

[TinseLeneHorse]

I got my toes squished a couple of weeks ago - I'm not sure if the pain in my big toe is due to this or an ingrown toenail but ATM I can only wear wellies or trainers. There is an interesting lump on my second toe too. Strangely there wasn't much bruising.
I'm also still suffering from continuous pain around my eye after a kick to the face this time last year. Apparently the nerves in this area are somewhat damaged ?

 

[Michen]

my finger is buggered. After it got wrapped around a rein jumping in the warm up. There's now a hard, big lump below the nail and I can't use that hand for anything!

 

[Ratface]

What injuries are you currently sporting from horses? It's the time of year where clipping is under way, it's getting a bit colder and horses are feeling the autumn nip and getting a tad bit fresh because of it.

2 weeks ago I got kicked just above the knee clipping. It was point blank range so it just gave me a dead leg and a sore muscle for a few days. I barely even got a bruise for my efforts! I was most disappointed! A few days later the tendon/ligament that runs down the outside of my knee got very sore and still is so I am assuming it got stretched and pulled a bit when I got booted. So that was me lame on my right leg on the Monday.

Tuesday a horse stood on my toes and twisted before getting off. Just the little toe and the one next to it. That was sore! And of course it couldn't be the same leg that got kicked! Oh no! It was the other one so come Tuesday afternoon I was bilaterally lame ?

The thigh musle injury eased off after a couple of days, it just got sore if I stretched the muscle. My toes on the other hand turned every colour under the sun and were sore for ages! Roll on to today, 2 weeks after the initial injuries and my little toe has finally dropped enough swelling to allow me to poke, prod and wiggle it by hand. I shouldn't have wiggled it ?? I think it may be slightly broken! It goes "pop" every time I wiggle it one way the pops to wiggle it back again. I can feel and and her it pop - almost like when you click a joint of something kind of pop and stiff movement ?

Oh well! Not a lot I can do about it! The toe is still straight so no one would do anything anyway. I can't run on it and I can't walk down hill very well but otherwise its grand ?

That all sounds really horrible. Do you not wear toetector boots or are they not allowed? I do when I'm doing anything with horses/cows. They're often too gormless/distracted/careless to know what they're doing to whom and almost certainly don't care!

 

[SEL]

My toenail on my big toe fell off after my foot got squished a few weeks back. I think it's growing back.

Also a dodgy neck from throwing up the muck heap. I've just told OH that's a job for him for a few weeks

 

[Velcrobum]

I have a pair of Tuffa steel toecap short boots which have saved my toes from a lot of abuse. I also ride in them but they might not be suitable for riding out racehorses.

 

[irishdraft]

My thumb got yanked back when horse took off a couple of weeks ago. Interesting bruising going down my wrist in first few days, now just left with swollen joint and only just able to bend it.

 

[Wizpop]

Wow! So many of us wouldn’t pass a vetting!
im currently sporting a broken elbow ( the second one- at least I don’t have any more elbows?). No horses were involved in the breaking of this one however, but an upside down hanging haynet which I caught my foot in and went splat onto the concrete yard!! This was at the beginning of August and have just had surgery number 4 for infections and complications! Hoping that this will be the last of the surgery.
I'm definitely not in the first flush of youth ( or anywhere near it) so need to stop doing this……I’ve had broken hip, wrist, thumb, toes plus the elbows - but no, I’m not ready to give up horses!!

 

[Kunoichi73]

Does walking like John Wayne after doing a no stirrup lesson count?

 

[EnduroRider]

I recently made the mistake of hanging on to the hoof I was putting a boot on whilst the horse was dancing about and trying to put it down. Not sure what exactly but something definitely went pop just under my rib cage, assume I've pulled a muscle as a week on it is still extremely tender.

As a slight tangent, having just turned forty I was summoned to the GP for a health check which included various measurements, blood test and lifestyle questions. All came out with very positive results but I reflected afterwards that they ask nothing of your musculoskeletal issues and I suspect that many of us with 'good' results have pretty broken bodies and perhaps those that are unhealthier on paper as less beaten and battered!!

 

[Wizpop]

Does walking like John Wayne after doing a no stirrup lesson count?

Think your body would scream “yes”?

 

[poiuytrewq]

I have a teeny blood blister, does that count ? it really hurt!
A little filly in for pre-training at work practically lept over the door and bit me as I was stood outside chatting to a child (so had to smile and say “ohh what a naughty pony!”)

 

[Auslander]

I have rope burns across all my fingers. One of my naughty ones had to have a night in nil by mouth, as she was scoped for ulcers this morning. She made her annoyance very clear by setting her neck and running away when I turned her back out after the scope. She normally wears a Dually halter, but I absent mindedly put her normal headcollar on. Stupid...

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

That all sounds really horrible. Do you not wear toetector boots or are they not allowed? I do when I'm doing anything with horses/cows. They're often too gormless/distracted/careless to know what they're doing to whom and almost certainly don't care!

I wouldn't have time to switch boots about. I was wearing leather jodhpur boots at the time so not as bad as it could be. To be fair the mare was standing like a lamb then a sudden downpour of rain battered off the metal roof and frightened her. She went to shoot towards the door to look out to check in with the other horses. Unfortunately I was between her and the door ? The one that kicked me is just a d1ck.

Walking like John Wayne most definitely counts ? I was like that a few weeks ago after Lou Lou decided it would be great fun to canter sideways and on the spot all the way home whilst I had no stirrups - she was being too much of a twat to drop them after coming off of the gallops so no stirrups it was all the way home ?

 

[Laurac13]

My mini Shetland threw his head in the air couple of weeks ago when I was leaning over doing up the rug neck fastenings and gave me a split fat lip … 1 hour before an important work zoom meeting ??

 

[iknowmyvalue]

Currently sporting a possibly (aka almost definitely) broken foot after trying to wash off a wired post-XC Pepsi single handed at BB 3 weeks ago. Still got a nice line of bruising, still hurts to poke it. But finally doesn’t hurt (too much) to put shoes on or wiggle my toes! though I’m mostly upset that his stud punched a hole in my nice competition boots ?

To be fair, I should have been paying more attention to where my feet were, when he’s in that high adrenaline mode he doesn’t have the best concept of personal space and where his big feet are…

 

[Lady Jane]

Wow! So many of us wouldn’t pass a vetting!
im currently sporting a broken elbow ( the second one- at least I don’t have any more elbows?). No horses were involved in the breaking of this one however, but an upside down hanging haynet which I caught my foot in and went splat onto the concrete yard!! This was at the beginning of August and have just had surgery number 4 for infections and complications! Hoping that this will be the last of the surgery.
I'm definitely not in the first flush of youth ( or anywhere near it) so need to stop doing this……I’ve had broken hip, wrist, thumb, toes plus the elbows - but no, I’m not ready to give up horses!!

Haynets are dangerous!

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I've also just found a cut on my knuckle that I must have done pulling manes yesterday. I don't recall doing it and it didn't bother me at the time but this morning it is a bit swollen ?

 

[ycbm]

Arthritic wrist set off big time by slamming it into Ludo's neck to stop myself falling off when he did a really dirty stop at his first attempt at jumping a wall in our SJ training last week! (I had a brace on it, too.)

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Arthritic wrist set off big time by slamming it into Ludo's neck to stop myself falling off when he did a really dirty stop at his first attempt at jumping a wall in our SJ training last week! (I had a brace on it, too.)

Ouch, hope it calms down soon.

 

[Suby2]

And we keep/own horses because…? ?

 

[Nasicus]

2 weeks ago I got kicked just above the knee clipping. It was point blank range so it just gave me a dead leg and a sore muscle for a few days. I barely even got a bruise for my efforts! I was most disappointed! A few days later the tendon/ligament that runs down the outside of my knee got very sore and still is so I am assuming it got stretched and pulled a bit when I got booted. So that was me lame on my right leg on the Monday.

Are you me? Because I got point blank cow kicked in the side of the knee clipping about a month ago, except at the time I was convinced my knee was broken. A month on and it's still stiff at times, and I can't kneel on it, but like you I didn't even get a cool bruise to show for it

Also covered in bruises and scratches from a weekend of prepping the winter field, so electric fencing, cutting back brambles, sawing tree limbs etc. And a bone bruise on my opposite shin to the kicked knee, after I went to kick a plastic bag under a metal gate and slammed my shin into the bottom bar. Rude words.

 

[Starzaan]

I got spectacularly wiped out in November last year and am still recovering from the surgeries and injuries.
I got hit in the back by a galloping horse. Not ideal.
So the injuries were a lacerated liver (almost chopped it in half), severed bile duct, massive internal bleeding, jaundice, fractured shoulder, fractured neck, and I’ve lost most of the strength of my right hand. I can’t hold a pen, can’t hold a rein properly, not ideal.

My first surgery went wrong and ended up being open as well as keyhole. As a result of that I have severe nerve damage and have lost a lot of feeling in my stomach and legs. Still not allowed to ride. Still fall down quite a lot because my body doesn’t feel like my own.

0 out of 10 do not recommend.

 

[Cowpony]

Also a dodgy neck from throwing up the muck heap. I've just told OH that's a job for him for a few weeks

I'm really impressed you could eat a whole muck heap!

 

[smolmaus]

Good grief Starzaan ? you... win??? I think???

I just got a headbutt last night for being in the way. And a big bruise on my knee from whacking it on a wheelbarrow. Oh and my left wrist is occasionally not working but thats "normal" now. Doing pretty well! *touches very wooden surface in sight*

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I got spectacularly wiped out in November last year and am still recovering from the surgeries and injuries.
I got hit in the back by a galloping horse. Not ideal.
So the injuries were a lacerated liver (almost chopped it in half), severed bile duct, massive internal bleeding, jaundice, fractured shoulder, fractured neck, and I’ve lost most of the strength of my right hand. I can’t hold a pen, can’t hold a rein properly, not ideal.

My first surgery went wrong and ended up being open as well as keyhole. As a result of that I have severe nerve damage and have lost a lot of feeling in my stomach and legs. Still not allowed to ride. Still fall down quite a lot because my body doesn’t feel like my own.

0 out of 10 do not recommend.

Wow! OK you defos win the horse injury stakes this year! Hopefully things will right themselves as much as they can to let you back on a horse and much more of a normal life again. Time is always the best healer.

 

[Starzaan]

I have to say it’s not something I would repeat in a hurry ???