Has your horse had a leg injury?

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In particular tendon/ligament/fracture etc

If so please could you explain what the injury was, how it was incurred (ridden, in field, competing etc) and what the level of fitness was at the time of injury? Oh and also what size, age and breed the horse in question was?

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Ok P had an accident in a field, he went exploring!!! Ended up getting caught up in wire and it strangled his joint. He was very lucky but he leg swelled up so much taht it eventaully coundn't cope and burst!! He was brought to a hydrotherapy centre where he remained for 3 weeks. He recieved about 1 weeks worth of hydro. I then took him home but on 2 more ocasions returned for further treatment. Vets said he may never be ridden again but within about 5 weeks he was back under saddle and has since made a full recovery.

Here is a pic but I warn you its not the nicest
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His Leg
 
My friends 16.3 9yo Belgian Warmblood mare broke her cannon bone in the field. Was was just starting out eventing with her owner (who had only had her a few months).

Took a whole year but she's back out there now getting ready for her first full season of BE.
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Hi,
15h, 5 year old, arab.

I used to do a mare who broke down on the track, well, actually she put her foot down a hole, but the result was the same. Obviously she was racing fit and bandaged at the time which the Vet said was probably why she only tore everything and didn't actually break her leg.

She was on box rest for four months, then on the day she was due to be turned out for the first time got colic so badly she was rushed to Rossdales for surgery, so, rather than having five or six months off work she was out completely for about 2 years because she had a foal in that time too.

I bought her for pennies when she was in foal, and she never had a days exercise induced lameness, or colic, in the 12 years I had her subsequently, she had another 3 foals with me, raced, did endurance and hunted hard for 3 seasons.
 
15.3hh, 9 years, Cob, Riding Club fit

I was only young when it happened so don't know the full details. My dad's horse injured his stifle. We think it was when a stupid instructor was making them going round in a tiny circle. It could have been the ligaments or cartledge which was damaged as at the same time my dad had the same operation as Clyde but on his knee. With humans the operation has a sucess rate of 80/20 but with horses it is only 50/50 and after a year on box rest he wasn't 100% sound and was sold as a hack.

My dad's horse before that (16.2hh, 13, TB, riding club fit) jumped a ditch but he land on a nail which punctured his leg and chipped a bone in his fetlock. After a couple of operations the bone never healed and he was PTS (on christmas eve
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Sorry I can't be of more help but if you want more info, give me a shout and I will speak to the parents.
 
You are sooooo right there.
Toughest little horse I have ever had that one. I'd count myself really lucky to find one as good as her again.
 
Injury: Slight tearing of Suspensory Ligament

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Age: 8
Size: 15hh (tb x connie)
Fitness: competing regularly BN/Disc. Sjing and Pre Novice BE

Incurred: at Eridge BE Pre Novice last year (1st July) Got to the XC, Ground was very very hard, and the XC was hilly too, he pulled (as usual) like a steam train round it - went clear, but was never right after it
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(was lame on the lunge on his outside leg on a soft surface.)

Treated: (had already had 3months on and off work by the time it was diagnosed) then had an official 3months off taking us to December (he had no box rest). Then had 6 weeks walking work and then was slowly brought back into full work. - we did it by the book as although the injury was not severe it was better to give it the benefit of the doubt instead of making it worse
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my horse has an old tendon injury done when he was racing. he's a 16.2/3hh TB. it was done before i got him and all i know was he had stem cell treatment but never made a good enough recovery to return to racing. he's been sound since i got him as a happy hacker, can't even tell he has an old injury by feeling his legs. i got him just before christmas and he hasn't done much work other than walk trot on the roads.
his level of fitness would have been racing fit at the time of injury.
not sure just how much work his legs will take now thats why they sold him as just a hack, i'm just playing it by ear, doubt i'll ever jump him anyway, i'm happy just doodling about
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My horse had a mild strain of the deep digital flexor tendon. Don't know how she did it! She is 15h welsh d x tb and was 11 years old at the time. Was fit for pony club eventing at the time. Had 4 months of box rest and controlled exercise.
 
My 15.3hh TBX fractured his front leg about 3 years ago. He was in the field - not sure how exactly it happened he was just very lame when I bought him on one night. Vet thought it was most likely a kick though. He was 9 at the time and fitness wise I was just using him for hacking and schooling at the time.
 
A 15 year old 14.2hh HW cob I used to ride who was fairly fit tore his check ligament whilst cantering in a group out on a hack. He went lame straight away. He was paddock rested for 6 months and then started to walk out gently. Now he is sound after lameness for a good 6 months or more.
 
hector damaged his achillies tendon, in the field, along with both hind suspensaries, vet thinks he slipped, he was not in work at the time, had just had a month off, he is 16.3hh TB 17yrs

he also fractured his pelvis dueig a race when he was 5, he was racing fit at the time
 
My mare injured her superficial digital flexor tendon in front right leg. Just behind the pastern, the medial branch. We jumped a tiny jump and she misjudged the width, hit the pole, it rolled and we stretched to land. This was in September last year. Shes been on box rest with controlled exercise ever since. We are on trotting now for 20 mins, 40 mins walking per day and in 3 weeks she goes back to get scan, then hopefully can canter and have turnout.
Riding club fit, 16hh, 15 years old, Clydesdale X TB
 
Had a pony on loan 15h, tb x connemara, bout 16 yrs old who was doing mainly PC, was at PC horse trial champs and he fell into a ditch on xc course and got a puncture wound in his knee from a birch stick. It got badly infected because the vet on the field stuck his grubby finger into it! and so was injecting him with penicillen and poulticing for weeks. Eventually infection cleared up but the knee was still huge although he wasn't lame. Got the leg xrayed a while later and found the bone had actually been scraped. However even with a big knee he went on to return to full fitness and compete again and then went to another home where he was hunted. He had to be PTS a few years ago for an unrelated neurological disease.
 
Fractured Radius and multiple bone chips.
My boy was turned out when it happened, we think it was done whilst he was boxing with his friend as was told a kick in that area would have shattered his leg.
He's 16.1 ish MW ID x TB x Shire and 7 yrs old.
Recovery consisited of 2 weeks at Leahurst cross tied, 5 weeks cross tied at home, 6 weeks further box rest loose, 2 weeks turnout in very small pen and now in a field. Got on him after 15 weeks for the first time this week. Hes now got a bone chip that has absessed and maybe being took out on Monday so more box rest!!! Apart from a splint like area above the inside of his knee which is the bone chip, his leg looks normal. Oh he was ridden daily and competed low level dressage before it happened but now he is like a beached whale!!
 
Amymay cob x, 14.3hh. Hunting, hacking, riding club.

Damaged her off side fore sesamoid ligament at aged 13. 6 months recovery time all in all - but with further period of lameness due to thickening of the annular ligament and scar tissue adhesions.

Now retired and in foal due to ringbone on the other leg.
 
16.2h TBxWB Aged 6 - proximal suspensory desmitis (off hind) while fit and competing BE novice level.
Same horse Aged 10 - torn sesamoid ligament (near fore) injury happened in field but horse was fit and competing DR/SJ at the time.
 
Well, Bo did his Check Ligament on his o/s fore last November. We don't know for certain but we think it was done in the turnout paddock in deep'ish mud. He was SJ'ing fit at the time of the injury, competing BSJA 1.10m/1.20m. He was an 8yo at the time, and is a 16.3hh KWPN gelding
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If so please could you explain what the injury was
deep flexor tendon strain/damage due to an op to flush the sheath

, how it was incurred (ridden, in field, competing etc)
origional infection got in field during lightening storm, tendon damage due to operation.she went lame on it a good few years later.

and what the level of fitness was at the time of injury?
competing every weekend, medium work.

Oh and also what size, age and breed the horse in question was? she is ISH, 15.2hh, she was around 6 when operated on, lameness occurred later in training on and off when she was 14 and 15.
 
10 year old 3/4 connermara, 1/4 irish draught. 14.2h. Not at his fittest at the time, but fit enough.

Cornered and attcked in field by new horse. Shattered the splint bone into several pieces (plus fragments) in his right hind leg (amongst other things!) Various pieces of bone floated round and irritated the tendon for a while, before he was operated on at Leahurst and the the splint bone was removed.
7 months of box rest, colic, and the skin on the front of his leg died due to odd bandaging, but came through fine (just slight arthritis in his hock, but never had any probs). Couple of courses of Cosequin worked wonders!
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