henryhorn
Well-Known Member
Scenario is this, pony arrives for a few months' stay whilst owner has an op.
It is lame on arrival but her vet has advised that the undulating ground and walking exercise it will get here will imrpove the injury to it's stifle he has diagnosed.
So we turn it out. after a month it's much worse and holding the leg off the ground, so we bring it in, ask owner's wishes and get the vet.
He agrees stifle, X Rays it and nothing much seen, but it's on box rest for a month plus bute gradually decreasing.
It can then walk in hand.
After a month I decrease bute and it's instantly worse, so we get vet out again.
He says he is sure it is it's cruciate ligament and I agree, all the area around there is tight and tense, and it shows nothing much to hoof testers and a good old poke about with the knife. It goes back on bute.
All through this time there is no heat/swelling anywhere.
My husband has said all along he disagrees with the diagnosis as it jerks it's foot away violently, and today our farrier had a really close look at it.
He says with less than half pressure on it's hoof it goes ape, and thinks it's fractured either of the above.
I've obviously contacted the owner and hope she will agree to vet X raying tomorrow. For now it's back on full bute dose.
Now from previous experience of breaks it does fit the pattern. They tend to not get better and I'm wondering if the stifle problem is now there due to adapting it's gait to rest the foot?
What I really need to know is what is the prognosis is for this type of inury?
My husband and the farrrier are convinced it's a fracture, there appears to be no abcess in there and I am going with that opinion too, but poor little bugger, she has been mis-diagnosed but has at least been inside resting and pampered for the last five weeks...
Any stories of similar injuries gratefully received., it's ever such a sweet pony, and if there is a chance of recovery
I reckon the owner would take it.
(oh and aren't men infuriating when they're proved right...
)
It is lame on arrival but her vet has advised that the undulating ground and walking exercise it will get here will imrpove the injury to it's stifle he has diagnosed.
So we turn it out. after a month it's much worse and holding the leg off the ground, so we bring it in, ask owner's wishes and get the vet.
He agrees stifle, X Rays it and nothing much seen, but it's on box rest for a month plus bute gradually decreasing.
It can then walk in hand.
After a month I decrease bute and it's instantly worse, so we get vet out again.
He says he is sure it is it's cruciate ligament and I agree, all the area around there is tight and tense, and it shows nothing much to hoof testers and a good old poke about with the knife. It goes back on bute.
All through this time there is no heat/swelling anywhere.
My husband has said all along he disagrees with the diagnosis as it jerks it's foot away violently, and today our farrier had a really close look at it.
He says with less than half pressure on it's hoof it goes ape, and thinks it's fractured either of the above.
I've obviously contacted the owner and hope she will agree to vet X raying tomorrow. For now it's back on full bute dose.
Now from previous experience of breaks it does fit the pattern. They tend to not get better and I'm wondering if the stifle problem is now there due to adapting it's gait to rest the foot?
What I really need to know is what is the prognosis is for this type of inury?
My husband and the farrrier are convinced it's a fracture, there appears to be no abcess in there and I am going with that opinion too, but poor little bugger, she has been mis-diagnosed but has at least been inside resting and pampered for the last five weeks...
Any stories of similar injuries gratefully received., it's ever such a sweet pony, and if there is a chance of recovery
I reckon the owner would take it.
(oh and aren't men infuriating when they're proved right...
