Effective supplements following hock surgery

[dolciblack]

I'm desperately looking for any supplements that will aid recovery for my mare following surgery 3 weeks ago today.

She had been kicked in the field causing a bone chip. The vet didn't first recognise this so it was 5 months before he agreed to xray, anyway after a visit to Bristol equine hospital, a bursa was found, so was scooped out, the bone shaved to remove dead stuff and renew bone marrow & cartilage cut away. There was slight abrasion to the tendon and shes come home to 2 months box rest.

She is walked to the field once a day to graze in hand which was recommended but she is still very very lame. I honestly thought there would be some mild improvement.

Has anyone suffered anything similar and have a supplement they found helped?

Thanks all

 

[peanut]

Not the same as no surgery, but Devil's Claw Root certainly helped my horse with spavins.

Maybe you should ask your vet what he/she recommends?

 

[Birker2020]

Is there nothing that the farrier can do to alter her way of moving with remedial shoeing that might keep her more comfortable? I think any supplements would take a while to have any effect. Maybe bute will help her discomfort in the interim if the vet would be in agreement?

 

[be positive]

If she has been lame for 5 months, I am shocked that a vet took so long to xray and diagnose when a chip or fracture would have been a fairly likely injury following a kick, then she will have got used to moving and compensating for the injury and may benefit from physio once it is allowed, vets often forget to recommend complementary therapy and think the job is done once they leave the hospital leaving the owner to deal with the rehab.
My horse had some gentle physio after a complicated injury, another vet who wouldn't xray delaying treatment, he only had some easy stretches that were appropriate initially then full on physio once he could start being walked properly and even more once in ridden exercise, it was essential to get his limb working fully again, to help reduce the fibrous tissue that had developed in the area around the tendons and to give him confidence to fully weight bear after several months of being in pain.