clairefeekerry1
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my horse went very oddly lame behind in august last year. in the end it was more like his back legs were skipping, this was mostly in trot and ONLY when ridden. he always looked okay in the paddock/trotted up tho maybe slightly short/off looking but nothing compared to when he was ridden. to cut a very long story short we had my vets do everything dianostic wise and still couln't diagnose him then he was reffered to a specialist lameness vet who again did everything dianostic wise and still cant really diagnois him. my vets bill is nearly 5k. the specialist has dianosed some form of soft tissue/ligament injury to SI or his back(lumber region or something?) and reccomended 3 months off 2 of which was box rest and 1 month in a small paddock. i've since had a very good physio and back person out who are currently treating him and i've never seen him look so good. he is absolutely full of it. he's often seen hooning round his paddock, bucking, and generally having a whale of a time. i;ve never seen him so full of it. his 3 months rest is now up but my plan was to give him 6 months off then that way if he was still lame at least i know i've done everything i can before a tough decsion has to be made, but the vets and physio and chiro think i should start him now after only 3 months off. its difficult as were still not 100% what was wrong with him, the physio and chiro both think some kind of SI ligament strain. obviously i cant bring him back into work now due to weather- but what would you do?? dont know what to do for best. would he still charge around the paddock bucking if he was still in pain??
my horse went very oddly lame behind in august last year. in the end it was more like his back legs were skipping, this was mostly in trot and ONLY when ridden. he always looked okay in the paddock/trotted up tho maybe slightly short/off looking but nothing compared to when he was ridden. to cut a very long story short we had my vets do everything dianostic wise and still couln't diagnose him then he was reffered to a specialist lameness vet who again did everything dianostic wise and still cant really diagnois him. my vets bill is nearly 5k. the specialist has dianosed some form of soft tissue/ligament injury to SI or his back(lumber region or something?) and reccomended 3 months off 2 of which was box rest and 1 month in a small paddock. i've since had a very good physio and back person out who are currently treating him and i've never seen him look so good. he is absolutely full of it. he's often seen hooning round his paddock, bucking, and generally having a whale of a time. i;ve never seen him so full of it. his 3 months rest is now up but my plan was to give him 6 months off then that way if he was still lame at least i know i've done everything i can before a tough decsion has to be made, but the vets and physio and chiro think i should start him now after only 3 months off. its difficult as were still not 100% what was wrong with him, the physio and chiro both think some kind of SI ligament strain. obviously i cant bring him back into work now due to weather- but what would you do?? dont know what to do for best. would he still charge around the paddock bucking if he was still in pain??