PrettyLittlePegasus
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Hi all,
I am new to this forum, but was hoping for some stories from others
I have a gelding whom is rising 9, I have had him since he was 11 months old and he has always been a superb lilted chap, back on 2016 around September time, his behaviour started to change, he starting being evasive with the but and bunny hopping etc, I thought to start it was as we had increased the work from mainly hacking to some lessons for dressage, we only walk/trot but more shapes and schooling. The behaviour become more and more till eventually we had a rear one day which really threw me as he has always been good.
I always keep on top of his saddle checks, teeth etc. but I still got the fitter out and this was fine, so were his teeth, I was having a back lady out often who was saying he had some tension, this was released, another few weeks later he would be reverting back.
Long story short, we have been to the vets, they said he has a mild lameness, so mild that he said if he wasn't displaying the behaviour then you wouldn't notice he is lame, we have been to Liverpool for bone scans and it picked up a mild widening of the sacroiliac joints and also two small cysts in the carpal joint in the right knee.
Just before Christmas he had steroid injections into the joints and I have been walking him out and long reining over poles etc. I am not happy to ride him at this point.
I walked him out Sunday, I was advised by the back lady to walk him on inclines, he was fine going up but coming back down he completely changed, trying to walk sideways, was bucking, rearing, also taking to the grass verge and generally just an unhappy young lad. As soon as we are back on the flat he returns to the mouse that he left the yard as.
Now previous to the injections he was uncomfortable coming downhill, not tracking up, trying to zig zag but this has definitely worsened.
Has anyone had experience of this as I really do not know what to do next, we are due back at the vets soon but I find it very difficult that he is just being assessed on a flat soft surface when this isn't when he is at his most uncomfortable
I am new to this forum, but was hoping for some stories from others
I have a gelding whom is rising 9, I have had him since he was 11 months old and he has always been a superb lilted chap, back on 2016 around September time, his behaviour started to change, he starting being evasive with the but and bunny hopping etc, I thought to start it was as we had increased the work from mainly hacking to some lessons for dressage, we only walk/trot but more shapes and schooling. The behaviour become more and more till eventually we had a rear one day which really threw me as he has always been good.
I always keep on top of his saddle checks, teeth etc. but I still got the fitter out and this was fine, so were his teeth, I was having a back lady out often who was saying he had some tension, this was released, another few weeks later he would be reverting back.
Long story short, we have been to the vets, they said he has a mild lameness, so mild that he said if he wasn't displaying the behaviour then you wouldn't notice he is lame, we have been to Liverpool for bone scans and it picked up a mild widening of the sacroiliac joints and also two small cysts in the carpal joint in the right knee.
Just before Christmas he had steroid injections into the joints and I have been walking him out and long reining over poles etc. I am not happy to ride him at this point.
I walked him out Sunday, I was advised by the back lady to walk him on inclines, he was fine going up but coming back down he completely changed, trying to walk sideways, was bucking, rearing, also taking to the grass verge and generally just an unhappy young lad. As soon as we are back on the flat he returns to the mouse that he left the yard as.
Now previous to the injections he was uncomfortable coming downhill, not tracking up, trying to zig zag but this has definitely worsened.
Has anyone had experience of this as I really do not know what to do next, we are due back at the vets soon but I find it very difficult that he is just being assessed on a flat soft surface when this isn't when he is at his most uncomfortable
