TotalMadgeness
Well-Known Member
My IDx (10 years old) was diagnosed with bone spavin in both hocks this time last year. He had a steroid injection which lasted a few months. Then the injection was repeated and this lasted about a week. After that he was put on 2 x Danilon a day. This appeared to help him and he's gone from strength to strength but over the last week or so with the cold wet weather he's started to display signs of discomfort. He's not going as forward as he was and is generally looking a bit sorry for himself. Thankfully he hasn't gone completely back to the mess he was in last year so it's not all doom and gloom, but he's simply lost some of the sparkle he had a few weeks ago.
He's currently on Equimins Flexijoint as well as the danilon, his weight is managed successfully and he is exercised daily (hacking, equicore schooling, ridden schooling). I don't jump him and any polework is only done in hand & in walk as part of his warm up. He is rarely lunged on a circle and he is never trotted on the road. He is regularly seen by a physio & is due next week for his next session.
No supplement has helped him - e.g. tumeric, boswellia etc. I now have to include Flexijoint in that list too!
He wears magnetic hock boots when in the stable (he is stabled a maximum of 12 hours a day 365 days a year).
So my question is... assuming this is his hocks bothering him again - what else can be done for him?
He's currently on Equimins Flexijoint as well as the danilon, his weight is managed successfully and he is exercised daily (hacking, equicore schooling, ridden schooling). I don't jump him and any polework is only done in hand & in walk as part of his warm up. He is rarely lunged on a circle and he is never trotted on the road. He is regularly seen by a physio & is due next week for his next session.
No supplement has helped him - e.g. tumeric, boswellia etc. I now have to include Flexijoint in that list too!
He wears magnetic hock boots when in the stable (he is stabled a maximum of 12 hours a day 365 days a year).
So my question is... assuming this is his hocks bothering him again - what else can be done for him?