Ceriann
Well-Known Member
My mare has been off games for c 6 weeks with back end performance niggles. We’ve done a work up, x-Rayed with mild changes shown. Tried cartrophen and it’s helped but still struggling to push through in canter. Vet came again today (with a colleague) and advice is she’s not acutely lame, it’s a bilateral hind shortness in the margins likely due to straightness of hocks and resulting wear and tear (she’s 14). They don’t want to medicate now - they want me to work her steadily over next couple of months (with Bute) to increase her fitness, muscle and get her as lean as I reasonably can. At that point we medicate - probably with gel not steroid. Age, fact she’s not lean (she’s not fat either) and time of year they don’t want to medicate with such marginal presentation. I’ve previously followed a rehab plan but this started from 5 mins a day. Pre time off she was doing 6 days of light work - mainly road hacking with couple of days schooling so she could start at a decent base position now. Anyone any good fitness programmes we could follow - very happy to do the slow steady walk work etc etc. Thank you!
