Lame on Landing

[Daytona]

Looking for some advice. Jumped my mare at a 3 day BS on friday she was fine, took her back on Saturday and was in the practise ring and came up to a large wide oxer which she put in a flyer over it, she landed fine was then walking about and a few mins later she felt unlevel, jumped off and lead her outside , then she was clearly lame, took her back home and she was fine when she got home, when being trotted up on road, left her in stable over night, took her out in monring trotted her up again and she was sound so we competed on sunday too and all was fine.

She was off on monday and had a jumping lesson last night which she was fab in, the last fence she jumped she really used herself , rounding her back and tucking right up. Left the school to take her a walk to cool down and felt the unlevelness again, jumped off lead her to yard, trotted her up on concrete and she was clearly very lame again, stabled again last night and trotted up sound again today...!

I have called vet he said well no point him coming out if she is not lame, called physo and she coming to see her next week.

Any what have any thoughts on what could be going on.

no head, swelling , lumps , bumps etc on her at all and of course the lameness is only lasting a short period of time.

 

[Sianage]

Hi,

I am doing a project about foot pain in horses and some of the cases I have looked at have included horses that have a similar history to yours - jumping and being quite lame on landing, then improving over the next few days. Is your horse lame on a circle on a hard surface? She might not be obviously lame but might have a low grade lameness.

I am not a vet so please don't properly take my word for it and there are literally only one or two horses (out of about 150!!) in my study that present like this and then the problem turns out to be in their feet, although this would fit with the fact that you can't find any lumps or bumps on her.

Just an idea, hope this helps

 

[Marydoll]

I would still expect my vet to come out and do a full lameness work up on a horse presenting with intermittent lameness like this, especially if its doing the work youre describing.Id be worried I was missing something that could lead to further problems. How frustrating for you, I hope you get to the bottom of it soon

 

[Daytona]

She is sound again with in a couple of hours , thats trotting her up on concrete, if and when it happens again I am going to put her on a circle and see if its worse or better with leg on inside or outside of circle, I will wait to physo comes and see what she says then hassle the vets again to come and investigate.

Its very strange , i hopes its not something sinister brewing underneath as i would be gutted ;-(

 

[chestnut cob]

I'd get a different vet if your usual one won't come out. Even if my horse was only lame on landing after a fence (though your horse is lame for a while after, too, if I've understood correctly?), I'd want to know what. Clearly something hurts her when she jumps/lands - I would want x-rays and a lameness workup to find out why. Use a different vet if needs be.

 

[Birker2020]

was in the practise ring and came up to a large wide oxer which she put in a flyer over it,

fab in, the last fence she jumped she really used herself , rounding her back and tucking right up.
Any what have any thoughts on what could be going on..

I'd say at a guess your horse is suffering from some kind of discomfort in her back. It seems its when she makes this big effort whilst jumping that the pain appears. Its not necessarily the landing which is what you associate the pain with although it could be a combination of the two. I have a large prolapsed disc (L5/S1) and I know when I jump my horse and he lands or he swaps his hind legs sometimes in canter it catches me in my back and jolts my back and thats when I experience pain and find it hard to walk after without being in pain. It could also be that your saddle is pinching an inpingeing on a nerve.

I think you should get a qualified veterinary physio out to have a look at your horse. I really believe it could be his back that is causing this lameness. Believe me when my disc hurts (its going through a particuarly bad time at the moment due to be overdoing things a couple of weeks ago) it can cause alsorts of problems with muscle spasms, and pain down my bum and into my leg and sometimes even lower. I also find that I have limited range of movement in my leg and can only put it fowards so far due to pain. Sorry to ramble on about my back but I'm just trying to expain how this might be working with your horse by using my back as an example.