hldvs86
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My boy went lame on Tuesday 12th April, at first I put it down to sun burnt heels as they appeared very sore but the lameness continued after the burns healed so I started to worry it was something else! I booked the vet to come out, they came out on Thursday 21st April (9 days after initial lameness). They trotted him up and did a flextion test which he was positive too and made his lameness worse so she wanted to do nerve blocks (left fore).
He came sound after 2 nerve blocks, one low down and another a little further up just below the pastern so she said box rest him till the following Tuesday till he could be scanned and x-rayed to see what the problem was. She had no idea what it could be as no heat or swelling was obvious.
Saturday 23rd he came out of his box while I mucked out and trotted (excitement) and appeared 100% sound, so I trotted him up...........my boy was fixed!! I thought YES
but just to be safe left him boxed over night and said i'd see how he was sunday, he was fine sunday too soo I put him out for 30mins in the paddock with his friends and he galloped once then just grazed, well he came in lame...something was def not right, i felt so bad for putting him out but I thought what ever it was had healed/gone away!! Anyway he went in to the clinic on tuesday 26th April, xrays showed some changes in the navicular bone on both front feet and some changes to another area but again on both legs and vet said it wasnt this and these looked like they had been there years. So then we went onto scans................. :-(
He was diagnosed with a deep digital flexor tendon tear at the back of his pastern.
Vet said 3 months rest (stable or very small paddock) in hand walking daily starting at 10mins increasing to 30) with shock wave therapy once a week for 4 weeks and a cartrophen injection along with a 5degree raised heel on both front feet as he has upright pasterns and the angle is broken back so to release some pressure on the tendon this is what he suggested.
Atm he is 100% sound and has been since he had the scans, he was sound the morning of the scans as vet said you have 2 choices..take him home and see how he goes or leave him and let us do the scans, I decided to leave him as rest helped it, and going out in the field upset it...so something wasnt right, I did the right thing leaving him to be scanned etc and i'm glad I did....!
Vet hasnt given me any prognosis really but said he cant see why he wont jump again BUT didnt give me any time scale on this........I was too upset to ask too many questions, silly as it may sound I totally broke down at the news as we had so much planned and we were just starting to get back into the swing of things after winter and the sunday before it happened we won ridden championship at a showing show.........!!
Vet is positive due to the fact he was so sound to start off with......
He is in a small pen, about the size of a large foaling box, and has his walks every day, he is being VERY good, very patient and loves his walks, toodles along with his head down and chilled enjoying being out, I thought he would get a bit frisky but thankfully he is being very good!!
What are your experiences and how have your horses coped/healed/what are they doing now etc!??
He came sound after 2 nerve blocks, one low down and another a little further up just below the pastern so she said box rest him till the following Tuesday till he could be scanned and x-rayed to see what the problem was. She had no idea what it could be as no heat or swelling was obvious.
Saturday 23rd he came out of his box while I mucked out and trotted (excitement) and appeared 100% sound, so I trotted him up...........my boy was fixed!! I thought YES
but just to be safe left him boxed over night and said i'd see how he was sunday, he was fine sunday too soo I put him out for 30mins in the paddock with his friends and he galloped once then just grazed, well he came in lame...something was def not right, i felt so bad for putting him out but I thought what ever it was had healed/gone away!! Anyway he went in to the clinic on tuesday 26th April, xrays showed some changes in the navicular bone on both front feet and some changes to another area but again on both legs and vet said it wasnt this and these looked like they had been there years. So then we went onto scans................. :-( He was diagnosed with a deep digital flexor tendon tear at the back of his pastern.
Vet said 3 months rest (stable or very small paddock) in hand walking daily starting at 10mins increasing to 30) with shock wave therapy once a week for 4 weeks and a cartrophen injection along with a 5degree raised heel on both front feet as he has upright pasterns and the angle is broken back so to release some pressure on the tendon this is what he suggested.
Atm he is 100% sound and has been since he had the scans, he was sound the morning of the scans as vet said you have 2 choices..take him home and see how he goes or leave him and let us do the scans, I decided to leave him as rest helped it, and going out in the field upset it...so something wasnt right, I did the right thing leaving him to be scanned etc and i'm glad I did....!
Vet hasnt given me any prognosis really but said he cant see why he wont jump again BUT didnt give me any time scale on this........I was too upset to ask too many questions, silly as it may sound I totally broke down at the news as we had so much planned and we were just starting to get back into the swing of things after winter and the sunday before it happened we won ridden championship at a showing show.........!!
Vet is positive due to the fact he was so sound to start off with......
He is in a small pen, about the size of a large foaling box, and has his walks every day, he is being VERY good, very patient and loves his walks, toodles along with his head down and chilled enjoying being out, I thought he would get a bit frisky but thankfully he is being very good!!
What are your experiences and how have your horses coped/healed/what are they doing now etc!??
*ashamed* she started going a bit lame, so i let her have a break as the farrier said it was probably footsore from the hard ground. but then she went extremely lame in the course of 2 days and she had to be send for ultrasound- i was devastated when it came back ddft tear- we had just gotten past the major refusals stage and she was winning all her SJ classes so the hard work was paying off at last. so after box rest and bute (i thought was useless all it did was send her psycho and she would gallop around bucking in hand causing more damage. she then went out in the field and she could walk on it- she had no irap or anything just supplements of tendoneaze and msm- shes now gone 100% sound and is up to 45mins schooling in walk trot canter and can hack for 1 hour 30 mostly walk. back into full work inc jumping in october if her ultrasound comes back clear- but since never had a sign of lameness or heat or anything so fingers crossed- the vet presumes we bought her with the tear and it healed up slightly but not fully (hence the reduced price i suppose.. first time buyers taken for idiots eh!) keep your chin up 
