Horse fell on concrete - potential issues?

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I'll preface this by saying I haven't visited here in a while but could do with some advice or something. Should probably be in veterinary topic as well but know the tack room gets more traffic.

My horse was tied on the yard this evening with a hay net while I was grooming/rug change and feeding ready to turn back out for the night. The tie ring is attached to an old barn and I had tied him to an old, threadbare piece of baling twine. I walked across the yard to grab my brushes and as I turned the door to the barn slammed closed next to him in the wind. He spooked and slipped on the concrete floor before going down on his off side. The twine broke and he scrabbled up before running towards me.

He has a scuff on his fur on the knee and scraped his hooves but I couldn't see any other damage and felt no heat. He also walked up sound and so after keeping an eye on him for a while I turned him out again.

Im now terrified he's done himself some terrible injury that isn't noticeable straight away. What are the chances he's done something like this to himself? Anything I should be looking out for first thing tomorrow other than swelling/heat/lameness?

Thanks for any advice.
 
If he’s lame tomorrow, got heat/swelling etc then worry slightly.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry at all. He’ll be reet.

If he’d done anything dreadful he’d have been lame after. Yes, cue loads of people with horror stories but honestly, if it was fine after it fell its almost certainly going to be fine tomorrow.
 
Patterdale said:
If he’s lame tomorrow, got heat/swelling etc then worry slightly.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry at all. He’ll be reet.

If he’d done anything dreadful he’d have been lame after. Yes, cue loads of people with horror stories but honestly, if it was fine after it fell its almost certainly going to be fine tomorrow.
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Thank you. It was very dramatic but I think (hope) he was just a bit shocked at the whole thing!
 
My horse did this one... he was itching his mane along the side of a wall whilst tied up with the usual gusto he approaches everything in life with and he literally slipped over on his side. Was absolutely fine, I did give him 3/4 days off work to make sure no issues showed up
 
One of mine went down on the road on his side from being spooked by a tractor
He had a bit of a scrape on a fetlock, otherwise he was fine
Fingers crossed yours is too x
 
Mine slipped over in the ice a couple of winters ago, got straight up and was absolutely fine apart from a cut lip. At least she had the sense to fall over the same evening as the vet was due, to do her vaccinations.
 
Although it is frightening at the time it is likely that your horse will be absolutely fine so try not to worry. My cob fell over on concrete as a youngster when another horse had a pop at him. He got up straightaway and was none the worse - no heat, swelling, lameness, scrapes etc. However, he must have chipped a tiny bit of bone off his pelvis as he now had a floating lump about the size of a large grape. It is really fascinating as it moves around under his skin and is only obvious when he is really fit and trim. He doesn't mind you moving it and when I got our vet to have a look he said it was unusual but not a problem in any way.
 
Asha said:
One of mine spooked out hacking and fell over on the concrete ( the neighbours terrifying Shetland dared to look at him ) He had a few scrapes , but was ok . Hope yours is the same ?
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My old mare did similar out hacking. We were trotting along quite happily and out of nowhere she slipped on a smooth bit of tarmac. Apart from a nasty scrape on her side from the stirrup, she was absolutely fine.
 
My mare did this as a rising 4 year old with me on top - she was unhurt - maybe because I broke her fall ?

She did it a few weeks later on her own too after she let herself out of her stable & surprised herself ? No damage then either.

It took her quite a while to learn what to do with all her legs ?

I'm sure yours will be fine ?
 
My young Dales pony used to shuffle around when tied up, lose traction, scrabble around for what seemed like ages and fall like a sack of spuds without doing any harm to himself. My instinctive reaction was to try to keep him upright during the scrabbling phase until pulled away by more sensible people.
 
I expect he will be OK, but just bear it in mind should you have a problem in future. So if there is any out of character behaviour or a schooling problem make your first thought "is that the cause" and get him looked at by vet and physio.

I bought a horse and it was vetted OK, although some fresh minor scrapes showed that she must have had a gallop round the field and maybe caught a tree branch. A few months later she had a problem and after lots of investigations we concluded that she must have banged into a tree and it had caused damage that only came up later. She was OK after treatment but it took a long time.
 
Iwantakitten said:
I'll preface this by saying I haven't visited here in a while but could do with some advice or something. Should probably be in veterinary topic as well but know the tack room gets more traffic.

My horse was tied on the yard this evening with a hay net while I was grooming/rug change and feeding ready to turn back out for the night. The tie ring is attached to an old barn and I had tied him to an old, threadbare piece of baling twine. I walked across the yard to grab my brushes and as I turned the door to the barn slammed closed next to him in the wind. He spooked and slipped on the concrete floor before going down on his off side. The twine broke and he scrabbled up before running towards me.

He has a scuff on his fur on the knee and scraped his hooves but I couldn't see any other damage and felt no heat. He also walked up sound and so after keeping an eye on him for a while I turned him out again.

Im now terrified he's done himself some terrible injury that isn't noticeable straight away. What are the chances he's done something like this to himself? Anything I should be looking out for first thing tomorrow other than swelling/heat/lameness?

Thanks for any advice.
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I had a horse tied on a little yard which was enclosed with fencing and was off the main yard years ago. One of the liveries insisted on letting her pony roam around the yard whilst my horse was there. I was on the main yard filling water buckets with my horse happily munching away on his net tied up outside his stable when someone came running over saying there had been a terrible accident. Apparently her pony had approached mine, the owner of the pony had screamed in panic :rolleyes: and my horse had reacted by pulling back.

The bailing twine never snapped and he ended up going over backwards when his lead rope snapped. He landed on his back and head before sliding down the slope and his head smashing on the fencing. I got there to find my horse standing legs splayed, half concious, so led him with much trepidation into his stable. In those days stables were wooden with top doors so I was able to switch the row of four lights off, tell everyone to vacate the yard, and shut him in the stable with the top door shut whilst I frantically rang the vet. Being quiet and in the dark was what he needed. Fortunately he didn't suffer any long term consequences but he didn't half give himself a wallop on the head, poor thing.

In your position OP as others have said I'd get the physio out when we are back to normal again in respect of the coronavirus.
 
My 19 yr old TB did this just before Christmas. Scared me half to death. He had 1 small cut but nothing else obvious and was fine after a day turned out.
He had the physio booked anyway a few days later and she did find he was a bit sore/stiff, so he had a couple of sessions with her before I did much ridden work.
To be fair mine is a bit creaky at the best of times but I'd just keep an eye out when your boy is worked to see if he's feeling it a bit. Glad he's ok.
 
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