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My horse has a suspected pelvic fracture. I don’t agree, the leg in which she’s sore on is stone cold just below the hock to the bottom of foot, rest of legs normal temp ? swelling which indicates a fracture is above at the femur but my thoughts are this swelling is due to the reason the leg is cold, like a circulation problem as if she has a dead leg? Anyone ever heard of 1 stone cold leg?
 
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Because of the swelling at the femur, we have x-rayed and scanned but muscles too thick to see through, closest mri is 250 miles away ??x
 
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I've known plenty of horses to have one leg a lot colder than the other as their norm. But if this is a new thing it does need investigated further.

Op you should be able to xray the femur 5-8 days after initial lameness and see any cracks. A pelvis is harder to detect if it just has a crack and has not displaced. You can ultrasound scan the area but yes it does depend on how much fat/muscle is above the bone as to whether you will see anything.

Swelling travels down so it isn't always a deas give away to where the injury is.

For Pelvis's I have always used a clenched fist and used my knuckles to test the area. I go in a triangle and push down hard - from top of bym down to tail a few to the side of the spine, top to point of hip, point to top of tail. If the horse majorly flinches I would suspect pelvis.

The treatment would be the same reagrdless. We don't cross tie horses as they just get depressed, we build a wall of shavings bales and cut their stable right down so they are in a narrow tunnel. They have a foot each side of them and can go forwards or back 3-4 ft. None have ever tried to lay down and only one broke out - he destroyed 14 of the 16 bales and had made himself a lovely throne of shavings ...

We have one at work who broke and displaced the pelvis this week. He is on box rest, walled in for 6 weeks then rescanned to see how it's healing.
 
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Elf On A Shelf said:
I've known plenty of horses to have one leg a lot colder than the other as their norm. But if this is a new thing it does need investigated further.

Op you should be able to xray the femur 5-8 days after initial lameness and see any cracks. A pelvis is harder to detect if it just has a crack and has not displaced. You can ultrasound scan the area but yes it does depend on how much fat/muscle is above the bone as to whether you will see anything.

Swelling travels down so it isn't always a deas give away to where the injury is.

For Pelvis's I have always used a clenched fist and used my knuckles to test the area. I go in a triangle and push down hard - from top of bym down to tail a few to the side of the spine, top to point of hip, point to top of tail. If the horse majorly flinches I would suspect pelvis.

The treatment would be the same reagrdless. We don't cross tie horses as they just get depressed, we build a wall of shavings bales and cut their stable right down so they are in a narrow tunnel. They have a foot each side of them and can go forwards or back 3-4 ft. None have ever tried to lay down and only one broke out - he destroyed 14 of the 16 bales and had made himself a lovely throne of shavings ...

We have one at work who broke and displaced the pelvis this week. He is on box rest, walled in for 6 weeks then rescanned to see how it's healing.
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Thanks had the cold leg investigated and a nerve had been damaged so the blood was slow to the leg ?? Re the pelvis I’m not convinced at this diagnosis as I’ve done your tests and horse isn’t really bothered around the area they suspect ??‍♀️
 
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