Horse is short behind..

[MeganLindsx]

My mare is short behind, she has had her back legs nerve blocked with no effect and had her SI joint injected a few months ago. She still short behind and the vet thinks its in her back/ pelvis region.

She is having her back, pelvis and hind legs bone scaned on Monday and more investigative work being done if needs be.

Does anyone have any idea whats going on or if they have experienced the same symptoms as I'm worrying myself!!

Thanks in advance!

 

[lcharles]

my mare was short behind, would kick out especially in canter and was reluctant to work in an outline. Turns out she done her suspensory ligament in her right hind leg, she had nerve blocks which didnt make a massive difference but after xrays and scans it showed up as her suspensory ligament was slightly 'wooly' (on the scan it wasnt a clear picture but vet said some horses have messier tissues than others) so she had shockwave therapy and then that didnt work so she had her hind legs de-nerved. Its called a neuretomy or something! x 7 Weeks after the operation, ive now started riding her and doing a bit of hill work in walk to rebuild the muscles, she is still slightly short on the one leg where vet says she is still tense from compensating elsewhere before the op. She may always be slightly short strided now but she isnt in pain.

Theres lots of reason she could be short strided and you wont know exactly what until you've had all xrays, scans etc done.

Is she insured? x

 

[MeganLindsx]

Thats really interesting because when she was nerve blocked the vet pointed out that there was swelling around that ligament but I always thought it was wingals... After nerve blocking that area I noticed an improvement but the vet said it wasn't anywhere near enough to warrant a lameness.

Yes thankfully she is insured! Will it show up on the bone scans?

 

[lcharles]

My mare's (Scirocco) xrays were all fine other than what they said looked like the very beginning of arthritus (looked like a tiny hook on her hock bone!!) but nothing to worry about. On her scan, the top of her ligment was 'wooly' so its the scan which will show any tissue damage. Its amazing seeing it all! x

a 'wooly' ligment (where suspected damage is) just looked whiter and thicker on the scan.

My mare wasnt overly lame, i initially had the vet out as my horse had 'lost her oomph' she didnt even look lame until after her first lot of box rest when it was blocked it made a slight difference but vet said that shes compensating elsewhere so is 'hiding' the lameness!! x

 

[MeganLindsx]

I actually can't wait to see whats going on as shes been lame for a while i just want to know but can't help worrying that its going to be something really bad!!

I will try and get a picture on here of her scan, if not i'll let you know what they find!

 

[muff747]

On her scan, the top of her ligment was 'wooly' so its the scan which will show any tissue damage.

a 'wooly' ligment (where suspected damage is) just looked whiter and thicker on the scan.

Read Vet pages on left side links, it talks about how the ligaments look on scans or ultra sounds as they're called in the US
http://dsldequine.info/

 

[MeganLindsx]

Thank you, Have been reading into it nd it does seem to match the describtions of her lameness. Very interesting as she doesn't really have the swelling you'd expect to see if a horse had done a ligament.