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hi,my mare competes bs and bd ...she has just been diagnosed with arthritis in her off hind hock (rare as normally in both) she has had a drip course of trilden and had steroid injection into joint .. was hoping to hear of other peoples experiances and were you able to go back competing ?x
 
My mare was diagnosed same as yours in March. Didn't have Tildren just cortisone and it made an immediate difference. She had a couple of other 'short term' issues so rode her for a few weeks as Vets instructions but decided to put her in foal and give her the time off to fully recover (she's 9 btw) Vet was very optimistic and watching her trot / canter across the paddock over the last few months her movement is better than before the diagnosis.

My immediate reaction when the vet showed me her x-rays was that the world had ended but now I'm not worried and will manage it the best we can.

She's the Bay in my signature and those two pictures were taken in September.
 
thank you for your story :0) thats how i feel !! my world has crumbled!....thank you any success storys give me hope :0) p.s your bay mare is stunning !!x
 
My older horse was diagnosed 2 years ago with both hocks. I thought it was the end of being competed!

She's had 3x injections into the joint, a course of Tildren and we tried cartrophen which didn't work!

She's 19 now and still working, jumping and dressaging.
 
Can't suss out how to do a link so look up Not a good day - Been to the vets (dated 27th March) and you'll see all the positive replies that I received :)

Copperpot recently had treatment on her horse which included Tildren. I'm pretty sure she posted about it in veterinary or PM her :)

In a months time you'll wonder why you were ever worried :)
 
Hello :) mine had both hocks injected and Tildren. Unfortunately I didn't see an immediate improvement. If anything he felt worse :( so I have taken his shoes off and chucked him in a field until next year. Will see how he is then. He also only had it in one hock. Although he does have other front end issues too.
 
Will follow this with interest as suspecting something like this going on in my boy's off hind too. :( Ironically it was during his holidays that he's become lame, thinking at the moment that he's had a hard summer and has seized up a bit as workload much decreased, but still early days. Vet out last week and we've been doing gentle exercise with him on a bit of bute to see if he improves, but expect we may need to nerve block/inject, as we already knew that hock was a little stiffer (planned on injecting in the spring). Good luck with yours :)
 
Mine had her hock injected just over a year ago and tildren about 2 months ago, my vet told me to crack on straight away after the tildren to see if it makes a difference, she was treated mid week and was out hunting on the weekend. I am pleased to see I have seen a noticeable difference since the tildren, my vet couldn't believe the difference in my horse :D (although my mare had mild changes and nothing to panic about too much). I know quite a few other people that have seen improvements since tildren, hope it works as well for your horse :)

Iirc when she had her hocks injected she had a week or two box rest with 10min in hand walking each day.
 
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floradora09 >>>my mare was placed at hickstead i decided to give her a holl so warmed her down for coupke of weeks then gave her 3 weeks off !! this is when she went lame in her holl....if i had kept working her she would prob of stayed sound it was like the time off made her sieze up ?! x
 
ginger bird said:
floradora09 >>>my mare was placed at hickstead i decided to give her a holl so warmed her down for coupke of weeks then gave her 3 weeks off !! this is when she went lame in her holl....if i had kept working her she would prob of stayed sound it was like the time off made her sieze up ?! x
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Interesting, that's pretty much what my vet said. So I feel even worse now! I'd been a bit suspect of that hock all summer, he never went lame but did continue to pop disunited on one rein, and was starting to look like he wasn't as happy to come under himself as much on the same rein on the lunge. Incidentally he has also tweaked where they get windgalls, vet not worried about that just need to think up a good plan for his longterm hock management. He's not been properly diagnosed yet with nerve blocks/x rays but vet back out next week.

I just hope that he'll still be able to go out and be a dressage diva :(
 
My boy has had 3 cortisone injections into the right hock for arthritic changes - most recent time he had it the vet said his hock was almost fused as he had quite a bit of trouble injecting this time round. He did advise lots of roadwork hacking, and to keep him working as much as possible as this would help him - so far so good as hes been sound as a pound since his last one
 
my SJ mare was diagnosed at 6 with it in one hock - she had a joint injection, worked for 9 months then slightly lame again, we gave her tildren and another hock injection, again she went slightly lame 3 months later. Injected both hocks and decided to call it a day with jumping, loaned her out to a dressage only home and she has been sound for 18 months, no more injections and she is on maxaflex and devils claw and getting over 70% in her tests - i feel if i had kept jumping her she would have always been on and off - she is now 8 - but by keeping her to just dressage its made a massive difference. Im not saying she would never jump again, i just felt i had tried for long enough and would rather her not have the injections and be sound :) i do know a few horses competing very sucessfully BS up to 1.30m classes so def hope for you :) work is definately better for it as we never even knew about my mare until she cut her front leg open and had to have 3 months box rest - thats when we noticed her not right behind, x-rayed and there it was, very advanced so she had had it some time and i believe if she hadnt of had to have the box rest we may never have known!
 
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