Dogbetty141
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what does this mean?
fired tendons
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Lucy_Ally
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Hot pins pushed into a damaged tendon - pin fire
Hot bars put onto the skin overlying the tendon - bar fire
Meant to improve healing - in fact is nonsense and pretty barbaric....
Hot bars put onto the skin overlying the tendon - bar fire
Meant to improve healing - in fact is nonsense and pretty barbaric....
Tia
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Pin firing is a similar practice but the result is lots of white dots rather than bars.
madmav
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It's similar to what they still do humans - my husband bears the scars - of believing that heat can remove the ailment. In humans, they put a boiling hot cup to the skin to create a blister and then cut it. Is called cupping. Some celebs think it's great. My husband firmly believes it removed whatever it was he was suffering from.Personally, think it's utter ****
kerilli
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my understanding is, (not a vet, but had a lot of experience of tendon injuries over the years, had 2 operated on, etc) it's not the heat that removes the problem, it is that (with equine ddft and sdft tendons anyway) a continual line of scar tissue is created, all the way up the leg. this means that the whole tendon ends up made of the same stuff. with tendon injures, the initial injury heals and becomes slightly different in structure to the healthy, undamaged tendon. the join between the two different types of structure then tends to break down next time, so either above or below the initial injury, and so on. by firing (or doing it with a scalpel under anaesthetic), the same structure results, so no different areas, no joins, so a stronger tendon. not as strong as an undamaged tendon, but still stronger than an injured and healed area in a healthy tendon.
a LOT of horses have been fired and then returned to racing, eventing etc. so much so that when it was banned in the u.k., many racehorse trainers shipped their injured horses over to Eire to have it done...
as long as they are given a lot of painkillers, i don't think it's any more barbaric than colic surgery, tbh... and i've nursed horses after both. the colic surgery horse suffered far far more pain.
a LOT of horses have been fired and then returned to racing, eventing etc. so much so that when it was banned in the u.k., many racehorse trainers shipped their injured horses over to Eire to have it done...
as long as they are given a lot of painkillers, i don't think it's any more barbaric than colic surgery, tbh... and i've nursed horses after both. the colic surgery horse suffered far far more pain.