lame on one rein?

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goneshowjumping

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I have a TB whom I evented last year and have owned for 5 years and never been lame, he is now coming up lame on the left rein only, very slight but you can see the head bobbing and shoulder dropping especially on a small circle in trot.
trot up on concrete and he seems fine, lunge on a surface and he seems fine.
im completely baffled! have had the farrier out who took his shoe off and rebalanced the foot, ive had the saddler out to recheck my saddle and that's all fine.
im really baffled as its getting no worse but no better.
no heat in foot or fetlock, walking sound and trotting and cantering sound in the field.
do I get the vet next??
 
Definitely the Vet.

Similar pattern to my horse, got flexions, various blocks and xrays done and then treatment followed.

Good luck and hope nothing too bad!
 
Ha ha, I think five years of lameness would have been more annoying! I agree with getting a total vet work up. I have just finished my first week of tests etc and whilst I really didnt want to do it I am very relieved I did. A lot of my problems have been attibuted to a splint which I thought was totally dormant and not bothering him l, turns out I was very very wrong. I am now a firm believer in tackling problems head on when they start rather than burying my head in the sand which is what my natural instinct was telling me to do. Good luck, hope you can get to the bottom of it.
 
Fun Times said:
Ha ha, I think five years of lameness would have been more annoying! I agree with getting a total vet work up. I have just finished my first week of tests etc and whilst I really didnt want to do it I am very relieved I did. A lot of my problems have been attibuted to a splint which I thought was totally dormant and not bothering him l, turns out I was very very wrong. I am now a firm believer in tackling problems head on when they start rather than burying my head in the sand which is what my natural instinct was telling me to do. Good luck, hope you can get to the bottom of it.
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THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH
I am going to take him to the vets for a full check.
he does have a dormant splint on the leg he is lame on, been there since I brought him as a 3 year old. fingers crossed its nothing major!
 
My splint only appeared this year. I don't do roadwork and he was totally sound on a surface or grass and would trot up sound on the yard so I assumed no issue. Then he started to go heavy on my hands and seemed uncomfortable through his shoulders on circles. The day before we went to horsepital he started to nod his head on one rein too. I really thought it was his shoulder or neck. Nope. They scanned prety much everywhere, xrayed stuff, ultrasounded stuff, did nerve blocks and eventually it led them to my seemingly innocuous splint. I have hated the last few weeks as its been awful but I do feel better for having done something about it. Let me know how you get on.
 
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