Hind suspensory?

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We may have a problem with our young horse. She is being scanned on Thursday. At present box rest and hosing. Think the problem is by fetlock.
Who has had problems. What treatment did you have. How long did you rest. Did they recover to full work.
No idea how she did it as she has good confirmation but is built uphill and does slip on the road a lot and also gallops around the field .
 
I think a lot will depend on if there is any other under lying issues, hopefully not.
My boy has damaged both hinds and also has tissue damage to his back, the vets think the back is primary, the suspensories secondary therefore he has come back from Newmarket to be retired.
A friend of mine had a 4 year old who was turned away for 6 months, bought back into light work and still not right so being turned away again

I guess the answer to the time frame is so difficult to answer, hinds according to the vets are more difficult to repair than fronts.

Can your youngster canter as correctly and as well as they did before, most horses with damage find it very difficult , walking and trotting fine.
My lad was never really lame at all, just found using his hinds difficult.

Hope you get a positive outcome.
 
No idea about canter as only just had problem. Behaviour changed in last couple of weeks, became nappy on hacks but happy to school. Thought she was just being naughty. Then realised she had here quarters to left and tail to right. Next morning big leg and lame. Vet thinks its suspensory. Leg now down with one day of rest and hosing. Not moved her to see if lame. Scan Thurs
 
About a year ago my mare went mildly lame with swelling around and just above her hind fetlock. She was eventually scanned and had a huge hole (50% or so) in the deep digital flexor tendon. She's had almost a year out of work pretty much, would have come back into work sooner but went away to stud. She's now 100% sound and in light work hacking out with a little schooling until she gets too big :-)

Good luck with the scan :)
 
Hope it's not suspensory! And agree - if the canter is the problem then this tends to be indicative of suspensory. My big boy had his denerved in an attempt to help him but he is still lame (2 sessions of box rest with restrictive exercise of 6 and 7 months). But there is a very good Facebook group who have plenty of positive outcomes so do take a look.
 
My TB mare was diagnosed with hind limb PSLD in October 2011, along with navicular, bilateral spavin and arthritis of the fetlock. We brought her home from hospital with the mindset that she would just a field ornament. So over winter she was mainly in her stable due to the weather anyway but got anywhere between an hour and a few hours turnout per day. She wasn't confined to a small area and I just let her out with the other mares. Sometimes she galloped round, other days she was fine. But it was safer than keeping her on box rest. She had shockwave therapy and physio and had her shoes taken off in November 2011. In about March/early April this year I started long-reining her out on the roads just to see how she was. She still looked slightly "wrong" behind, so took her to the vet to be scanned who confirmed the suspensory looked slightly "irregular" still, but no tears and the lameness he thought was from the fetlock arthritis as when he blocked it she was much sounder. She came into ridden work after six weeks long-reining and I spent the summer hacking out. We are going to start some schooling soon. She is still unshod and seems to benefit from this. That's not to say I wouldn't shoe if I thought it would benefit her, it's just that not having shoes on works well for her. Good luck - I hope it isn't as bad as you fear.
 
Forgot to add - she found canter difficult previously, but I have started lunging her recently and she is striking off and holding the correct lead much better - she used to go disunited behind all the time, but isn't doing this now as much.
 
carthorse said:
Think we might put her in foal as it was always the plan to breed a foal
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Generally one of the best things that can be done for these sort of injuries is lots of time out of work, turned away. So long as carrying a foal will not excerbate the injury then you might as well so long as there isn't a conformational thing causing it. It's one of the reasons my mare is in foal now - I always planned to have a foal and this presented a good opportunity.
 
My horse was diagnosed with damage to both suspensories a couple of weeks ago.

Under vets recommendation he has had his hind shoes replaced with eggbar types, weekly physio and shockwave therapy, together with a walking in hand exercise programme.

Vet has given a best estimate of another 6 weeks to soundness if all goes to plan, and hopefully back to normal RC activities next year, so fingers crossed.
 
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