Diagnosed with arthritis in Coffin & Pastern joints

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Has anyone got a horse diagnosed with this please?

My 14 year old cob was diagnosed last week and had steriod injections into these joints, both legs on Wednesday last week.

Have you still been able to ride your horse? How is their quality of life?

Im devestated
 
Mines not a good outcome sorry, my cob was 11 and had low articular ringbone. He had 2 steroid injections into the joint but they didn't help, I'd only owned him for 11 months so not sure how long he had suffered from it. He was hardly ridden in his previous home, sadly he was PTS as he was unable to walk to the field even on 4 bute a day. Hope you have a better outcome, lots on here have but sadly for me it was not the case. Good luck.
 
Hi

I have no comments to make on the coffin joint arthritis, but just thought i would say my boy was diagnosed with arthritis in both pasterns last year and had the steroid injections, and has been back to normal work every since
 
Black_Horse_White said:
Mines not a good outcome sorry, my cob was 11 and had low articular ringbone. He had 2 steroid injections into the joint but they didn't help, I'd only owned him for 11 months so not sure how long he had suffered from it. He was hardly ridden in his previous home, sadly he was PTS as he was unable to walk to the field even on 4 bute a day. Hope you have a better outcome, lots on here have but sadly for me it was not the case. Good luck.
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Oh no :( so sorry to hear that, I only really noticed claude was lame after he got up from sleeping in the field. He was walking sound otherwise. x
 
Jesstiggs said:
Hi

I have no comments to make on the coffin joint arthritis, but just thought i would say my boy was diagnosed with arthritis in both pasterns last year and had the steroid injections, and has been back to normal work every since
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Thats fantastic news! Fingers crossed for my boy x
 
My horse was diagnosed with high ringbone in the pastern in January. She was also diagnosed with sidebones at the same time.
She had steroid injections and is on glucosamine supplement, corn oil, and bute when ridden.

My vet said she would be a happy hacker with minimal work at most but I made the decision to try and bring my mare back to full work as she enjoys her work and wasn't happy not doing a lot, she was close to injuring herself in the field instead :eek:

Now she is back in full work I can safely say she has never been so sound and happy! You wouldn't think anything was wrong with her if you didnt know her, I do all I want with her and she is much, much happier :D

It takes very careful management and you knowing when enough is enough. Some horses dont cope as well as others so I guess I was lucky but there is hope!

We are doing our first XC ride in a few weeks since last year and I have no worries taking her :)

Some people may not agree but personally I think quality of life is better than quantity which is why I made the decision to work her fully with the aid of bute. We are both much happier since I did this and my vet is pretty gob smacked at how much more sound she is now :D
 
One of my liveries had this about a month ago injection into fetlock. We thought it wasn't working but it did take at least 2 weeks to start working so we could notice.
 
Mine has ringbone in both forelegs, much more advanced in the left fore. Last year x-rays showed he'd also begun to develop some arthritis around the coffin joint of the same leg as well as sidebone in both fores. He had Tildren at the time and has Adequan periodically but I've never had steroid injections into his forelegs. He is happy enough. On a good day he'll do a decent dressage test (sharer is taking him this weekend actually) but mostly he hacks. He does a good amount of hacking, plenty of trotting and cantering (no trotting on hard ground/roads though), and last season he hunted 6 or 7 days. Hopefully he'll do a couple of days hunting this coming season too.

He gets Danilon daily to keep him comfortable enough to work, because working is the best thing for him. When he hacks, he works *properly* to try and minimise the weight he carries on his forehand, and he doesn't jump unless it's the odd thing on a fun ride/hunting when the ground is good/ soft. Three years ago my vet told me the horse would only be capable of light hacking... it's just been a case of working out how best to manage him, listening to when he says it's too much and when he eventually says enough is enough.

I also changed to an excellent remedial farrier who I believe is responsible, along with my physio, for keeping the horse as mobile as he is.
 
chestnut cob said:
Mine has ringbone in both forelegs, much more advanced in the left fore. Last year x-rays showed he'd also begun to develop some arthritis around the coffin joint of the same leg as well as sidebone in both fores. He had Tildren at the time and has Adequan periodically but I've never had steroid injections into his forelegs. He is happy enough. On a good day he'll do a decent dressage test (sharer is taking him this weekend actually) but mostly he hacks. He does a good amount of hacking, plenty of trotting and cantering (no trotting on hard ground/roads though), and last season he hunted 6 or 7 days. Hopefully he'll do a couple of days hunting this coming season too.

He gets Danilon daily to keep him comfortable enough to work, because working is the best thing for him. When he hacks, he works *properly* to try and minimise the weight he carries on his forehand, and he doesn't jump unless it's the odd thing on a fun ride/hunting when the ground is good/ soft. Three years ago my vet told me the horse would only be capable of light hacking... it's just been a case of working out how best to manage him, listening to when he says it's too much and when he eventually says enough is enough.

I also changed to an excellent remedial farrier who I believe is responsible, along with my physio, for keeping the horse as mobile as he is.
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Thank you for this :) my boy had the vet out yesterday for a check and to inject his hock with steroids for cartalidge damage (sp) the vet asked me to trot him up before she did his hock, she was pleased with how he was looking. He is having a remedial farrior too next week hopefully. So, so far so good!
Team Patchy soldiers on :)
 
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