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Dealing with long term injuries.

Mine came in lame on Monday with heat and swelling in one front leg. After obsessive cold hosing and bandaging he was back to normal by Thursday morning, and the cold hosing has now been supplemented by in-hand grazing, short walks, and today all the stress of turning out for short periods in a tiny paddock. It's taken hours every day, I'm exhausted and fed up and grumpy, and I'm fit for nothing tonight except gin, bath and bed.

I hadn't appreciated just how much of a toll it takes, and I've been doing it for less than a week!

How do you cope if you have to deal with it long term?! And hats off to you if you do!
 
i feel your pain! i dont know how but i managed to look after my boy who was on box rest for 8weeks and was stabled 35miles from home. i was there twice a day everyday!
he is now closer to home but has been stabled 24/7 although exercised as well. today i turned him out and he came in with puffy hind fetlocks and he had taken the hair off of one hind, he is sound and theres no heat at present but i still cold hosed just in case. damn pony!
hope your horse is better soon!
 
Theocat said:
Dealing with long term injuries.

Mine came in lame on Monday with heat and swelling in one front leg. After obsessive cold hosing and bandaging he was back to normal by Thursday morning, and the cold hosing has now been supplemented by in-hand grazing, short walks, and today all the stress of turning out for short periods in a tiny paddock. It's taken hours every day, I'm exhausted and fed up and grumpy, and I'm fit for nothing tonight except gin, bath and bed.

I hadn't appreciated just how much of a toll it takes, and I've been doing it for less than a week!

How do you cope if you have to deal with it long term?! And hats off to you if you do!
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I did 16 weeks in a box and 10 mins walking.....I said never again and I have never done it again! Just put them in a field and let them eat grass!
 
Try 6 mnths!!!

Tendon injury.....worse than the box rest was the in hand walking 3 times a day, got very tedious and thank god for the invention of the ipod.

Fortunately all the hard work paid off and the horse made a full recovery, but would not like to repeat the experience again.
 
Same boat horse been on rest since December. Can't wait for that moment I can turn him out 24/7 but then I'm worried as been stuck inside he will go made and just blow the leg again.
 
Try 18 months post surgery with scans every 2 weeks at a vets 40 miles away hoping the manica would restick Fortunately it did but then came the rehab of walking out but we had to do it with a toddler aboard without a fragile jockey to look after she was ruining everything by doing airs above the ground with the kiddy on top she was back in nanny mode and took great care of the child and wasnt carrying too much weight
 
Mine went lame in 2012, had barefoot rehab, then had an op - been walking in hand since August of last year, started to ride him in January of this year.....the walking was fine initially, but the more he walked, the fitter he got, so has been a complete numpty to ride!!
Think I must have walked miles & miles & miles!!
 
One of mine has been on box rest since August so we're up to 6 months. It sucks and the rehab plan is taking hours, it is exhausting, especially with my other 2 to do as well, one of which I have just backed.

The rehab sheet of doom says she could be thinking about going outdoors again around now but with the ground as it is (currently a lake) there's no way that she will be free range anytime soon. It's depressing but there is no way after the hours and hours of rehab I have done each day with her there is no way I'd let her back out on ground like this :(
 
Mine had eight months off, and hasn't been fit since 2011. Picking him up from Rockley on Sunday, this is the year we will both get fit and have some fun!
 
Sadly when you have no choice in the matter you just slog through it day in day out! Im crossing everything that my boy gets the ok to come off box rest in 3 weeks because 5 months is beginning to slowly kill me!! But i love him to pieces so i take the grumpyness of him atm i mean i would be p!55ed off after 5 months in a box!! Glad its nothing major for yours thou, mines out of action for the rest of the year!
 
Ha ha I've been at it for 18 months or so now and you kind of get used to it......eventually!!

My lad was mis-diagnosed by vets, then sent for surgery at equine hospital but vets didn't give surgeon correct information so op didn't cure lameness. I've finally taken matters into my own hands and he's currently back at horsepital but with all the correct details!!

It does get you down, no doubt about it, but you have two choices - crack on and try to sort neddy out or give up and call it a day (I couldn't do that when he's my perfect horse and is otherwise very healthy).
 
Mine had a collapsed pedal bone , blown tendon and arthritis . Daily I had to hose his legs , cold boot them, magnetic boot them , walk him around etc.

He went very very lame in the end though so I gave him away to a friend so he could retire into a lovely big paddock as vet reccomended
 
I think you do it because you don't have much choice.

I did 9 months box rest and it was hell for everyone but what else can you do? I've also done monthly 4 hour round trips to get to the vet (while having to sort out childcare for a toddler) but again what choice is there if that's the nearest specialist vet?
 
I had 3 different injuries on 3 different legs in 3 years all requiring some form of box rest measured in months and rehab walking. No, it's not fun, but I did get to spend lots of time with him grooming etc which was kind of nice. :)
 
It's the mental and emotional states of minds too that take their toll so much. The sister went through hell an back with her mare. She was a very talented and promising eventer and show horse, the first 'nice' one we had ever had. I know she was heartbroken, took her 18months to get her back after she was diagnosed with navicular and DJD of the coffin joints. It came to a head last year when she took both racehorse championship and reserve riding horse and we'd said enough was enough. Was an emotional journey home, the tears shed were ones of both happiness and sadness as the stress had taken its toll but the old bird ended on a high. I wouldn't put any of mine through tendon surgery or broken legs, I would just always be worrying that they would go again.
 
One of mine has been on box rest since October with severe bruising to the bones in his foot he gets to go out for an hour a day at the minute and is due to go back to the vets in a couple of week to reevaluate thinking he should be better by now but hes still lame in walk so have no idea how much longer it will take but not much we can do about it
 
My old boy was in for 3 months with a sprained check ligament - absolute box rest for 6 weeks then a couple of hours turnout a day in a tiny paddock. Not much fun!

And Jazz has now been in for a week after slicing his leg open last Friday, so he is on strict box rest for at least the next month or so ... he's normally turned out at 6.30 am and then comes in at about 4 pm so needless to say we are both getting a tad fed up.
 
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