Fractured Splint Bone

[VikkiB2209]

Hi, my horse has fractured her splint bone and had to have it operated on 12 days ago as it had completely broken away, she’s currently doing really well in recovery, but I was wondering if anyone else had give through the same & how their horses recovery was?

 

[blodwyn1]

Mine was kicked in 2018 and had three fragments removed. It took six months to recover.

 

[VikkiB2209]

Thank you for your reply. Glad to hear your horse made a full recovery. Everyone I speak to haven’t actually had an operation. Can I ask are you now able to do everything you did with your horse before the accident?

 

[be positive]

I have had two operated on and both made a full recovery, the first did everything he did before, he passed a 5 stage vetting when he was sold a few years later, the more recent one is fine with barely a mark on his leg, he has retired but not due to that injury.

 

[be positive]

I have had two operated on and both made a full recovery, the first did everything he did before, he passed a 5 stage vetting when he was sold a few years later, the more recent one is fine with barely a mark on his leg, he has retired but not due to that injury.

 

[VikkiB2209]

Oh wow! Thank you so much

 

[cheekywelshie]

Mine had a splint fracture was operated on, box rest the usual slow return to exercise no problem. He could have been field rested for a longer period but there was a risk of a callus forming which I was advised could be problematic if jumping so I went with the op. He recovered well. He’s had suspected suspensory (never confirmed ultrasound showed nothing - conclusion was stiffness) and two colic surgeries 12 years apart ? ? We had five years of no vet bills other than routine until the recent colic!

 

[Red-1]

A friend had one as a youngster. They tried rest, but it didn't attach (or it did but then was kicked off again) so they had the operation.

The horse went on to event no problems.

 

[BBP]

I can’t help as mine didn’t have the op, but he snapped the button off the distal end. We decided to leave the piece where it was without surgery to see if the body would reabsorb it on its own, which it eventually did. He was on field rest the whole time as he doesn’t box rest well (doesn’t field rest well either to be honest!). He came back from it perfectly well, it’s other injuries that have led to his sort of retirement. If the fracture had been higher up or messier we may have gone for surgery. You can feel the difference in his splint bones now, that one has a button and one doesn’t and ends short.

 

[blodwyn1]

4 weeks box rest at the vets with pressure bandages on then home for pen rest for months. I also took her to a water treadmill weekly. She had a lot of damage to her lymphatic system so the leg was very swollen. She is back to doing what she did before.