Diagnosed with Bone spavin but lame in front end?

[bellomondo]

My horse was diagnosed with Bone spavin a month and a bit ago, Vet told me to change his shoes, give him bute every day for a week while riding him and keep him in work, have done all that and he has improved loads, but for some reason he looks lame in his front, and its a weird kinda lameness, When being lunged going on the right rein he looks fine, nothing wrong at all, you change directions and it is limp limp limp. At first I put it down to foot soreness as his feet are pretty bad from only being off the track 2 months and we are in a fairly dry area and it did improve when he got new shoes but Im just wondering, could this be because of the spavin? Or could it be something else? I will be taking him back to the vet really soon if it doesn't improve but I just thought I would see if anyone had any experiences with the same thing.

I forgot to Add that last time we were at the vets about 2 weeks ago he noticed that he looked lame in the front when trotting on the tarmac (he had me lunge him on hard and soft surfaces, was not lame at all in the sand but very lame of the really hard surface), he picked up his foot that he looked lame on and looked kinda confused, but shrugged it off and told me to continue the treatment for the spavin.

 

[Adina]

I have recently retired my horse due to Bone Spavin. When originally diagnosed 2 years ago he was X-rayed and I was amazed at how far the fusing had progressed. He had injections into the joints (both hocks affected) and gradually brought into work. His way of going was altered, he moved shorter in front and he fell on the road twice. But I had one winter of a powerful horse, enjoying his canters through the fields - I thought we'd cracked it. Over the summer he lost enthusiasm and his stride shortened. So he did light hacking once or twice a week to babysit my recently backed mare. This Christmas he seemed to get slower and slower on hacks. So i decided to see how sound he was on the lunge. On a soft surface he was almost sound. But on a hard surface he was lame in front. Knowing that he would never complain if he was hurting, and would always try, I decided to completely retire him. He is, after all 18, I've had him since he was 4. Now he is living out 24/7 looking after my 2 youngsters.

 

[bellomondo]

Hopefully this isn't the case with my boy. He is only 7, He got ridden tonight on grass and was not lame at all, he seemed to be fine walking on the road when we were on there but did no trotting and he is not slow at all, he is full steam ahead. I think we have a very long battle ahead of us but the vet seems to think that he will make a full recovery once healed, even if it means surgery for him, I think he deserves another shot at life He has no problems running up and down the fence or bolting around the paddock. He doesn't seem to be in pain very often and with the new shoes its getting better and better. Hopefully this is the start of something good