pocketrocket1
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I'm having a major dilemma with a horse of mine and would welcome any suggestions.
Last April she had a nasty rotational out XC and was seemingly ok, she competed again a week later and was fine until the day after when she was unsound. Physio saw her and she had a swelling on her back end. A few weeks rest and she seemed better in the back but unsound in the opposite front. This didn't go away. Went to vets, ultrasound, nerve blocks etc all suggested that it was in the navicular area so she was injected into the bursar and came sound. Completely sound back to full work, jumping etc. Couple of months later she went unsound again so we then took her for MRI. Showed a chipped Navicular which had then caused a slight lesion on her deep digital. The deep digital lesion was not so bad that it would suggest lameness but with everything else clearly she was sore. She had tildren and further cortisone and came sound within a few weeks but some days didn't look great other days absolutely fine. After a month of that I finally decided that we weren't getting consistency of soundness so last September her shoes came off and she went out in the field.
Back in April this year looking really good and sound in every way except on a tight turn at the end of a trot up. She's been to see the vet who is happy with progress but has told me to go slow, she has now been in walk work for 10 weeks and started doing very small bits of trot in a straight line. All this is going well but the turn is still dodgy, no worse, no better.
What do I do?? Do I accept that she is never going to be 100% on the turn and frankly how often is that done? I can't keep walking forever? Do I turn her back out for another few months? Vet thinks walk for another few weeks then see but I'm getting a bit frustrated now as that's been the answer for the last 10 weeks.
Any thoughts welcome!
Last April she had a nasty rotational out XC and was seemingly ok, she competed again a week later and was fine until the day after when she was unsound. Physio saw her and she had a swelling on her back end. A few weeks rest and she seemed better in the back but unsound in the opposite front. This didn't go away. Went to vets, ultrasound, nerve blocks etc all suggested that it was in the navicular area so she was injected into the bursar and came sound. Completely sound back to full work, jumping etc. Couple of months later she went unsound again so we then took her for MRI. Showed a chipped Navicular which had then caused a slight lesion on her deep digital. The deep digital lesion was not so bad that it would suggest lameness but with everything else clearly she was sore. She had tildren and further cortisone and came sound within a few weeks but some days didn't look great other days absolutely fine. After a month of that I finally decided that we weren't getting consistency of soundness so last September her shoes came off and she went out in the field.
Back in April this year looking really good and sound in every way except on a tight turn at the end of a trot up. She's been to see the vet who is happy with progress but has told me to go slow, she has now been in walk work for 10 weeks and started doing very small bits of trot in a straight line. All this is going well but the turn is still dodgy, no worse, no better.
What do I do?? Do I accept that she is never going to be 100% on the turn and frankly how often is that done? I can't keep walking forever? Do I turn her back out for another few months? Vet thinks walk for another few weeks then see but I'm getting a bit frustrated now as that's been the answer for the last 10 weeks.
Any thoughts welcome!
Getting a bit frustrating now to know what's for the best