Lameness video - suggestions please?

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Here is a video of my horse. Two sunday's ago his n/f leg swelled up a little with heat in the leg and slight heat in the foot. The vet came out on the Tuesday two days afterwards by which time there was no swelling or heat. There was no lameness and the horse trotted up sound.

Roll on week and a half and Friday night after work I rode in the school and my horse is lame again. No heat or swelling again.

When the vet came out the other day I asked for xrays of his feet as he had had a bruised sole with a haemotoma both times on two separate consecutive shoeings. THis was three shoeings ago, but the last three shoeings (every five weeks have been fine). An expert thought it may be down to a problem with pedal osteosis and thought I might need xrays which I asked for when the vet came out, but we discussed it and it seems reasonable as the horse was sound and it was nothing to do with being shod that we didn't go ahead with this at the time. Now I think we should.

What do you guys think? I am not even sure it is the right leg he is lame on in this video as the horse overcompensates from the near fore later branch suspensory injury he sustained a couple of years ago. This is normally when he has strained it. The fields are drying out and I think he's tugged his suspensory in the mud and it appears to make him lame on the right leg as he overcompensates whcih is what he used to do.

What do you think?

Here is the link to the video http://youtu.be/eAE3du0x-FI
Here is another one: http://youtu.be/D8ozIKEPXdo
 
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You did say anyone ;) So think of this more as a bump so hopefully someone more experienced will see it

I'm not sure I can help and I'm probably going to upset you, sorry.

I think he does look lame in front, but I don't think it is on every stride. Has the vet seen the video?

Here's where I upset you, it may be the angle of the video or his build but could he possibly need to shed a little weight?
 
Yes he's lame and I would say it is his right fore... get the vet out to investigate further... nerve blocks may be required to ascertain where the lameness is coming from. They're a right pain aren't they??! Who'd have 'em!!
 
Had to watch it quite a few times as clearly very lame but am wondering if it's the front left as I think the right is landing more heavily and taking more weight than the left, wonder if the right is sore because it is taking more load and the left looks better as is isn't hitting the ground with as much weight and is lifting away more quickly - does that make sense??? Everyone I know including me seems to have a not quite right or lame horse and is mystified by the underlying cause. There are shedloads of abcesses and strained muscles from the heavy winter knocking around at the moment.

Hope it resolves with ease
 
i say looks uncomfortable in both fronts but left fore is worse. would be interesting to see horse trotting in straight line form in front and behind as I suspect from that video he is not comfortable all round-could he have got cast or similar?

he is over weight and my other suspicion would be laminitis and possible bruising abcess in the worse affected hoof, is there any heat in his feet or a digital pulse?

I would book the horse in for a lamness work up if the vet does not feel it could be lami
 
Lame on both fore legs and does not look right behind as well .
He looks fat to me and I would be worrying about the same as the poster above .
 
UPDATE

Hi guys thanks for your replies.

Yes I agree with your thoughts re his weight and I am currently doing all I can to shed the weight; he is the normal good doer WB, who lives off fresh air and he's been on the dengie good doer chaff and hardly anything else for the past month. I've also cut down on his hay and reduced the size of his feeds. Since he came in bloated and far**ng last Thursday his hours out in the paddock have been reduced from five to four hours. And of course he is not getting any work due to the lameness, he was last schooled on Tuesday and I've not had chance to ride again until Friday when I found he was lame. The video was taken in the afternoon following his time out at grass and he has really bloated from the gas (he suffers spasmodic colic and the grazing is really rich although touch wood he's not had an episode for a while). Believe it or not he looked a lot slimmer when he went out he just bloats up so much.

I have booked him in for a lameness work on Friday following discussion with the vet over the phone this morning and on my request. I think it is deffo his feet. I have questionned my vet twice about laminitis but he says he hasn't got the laminitic stance or the pulse that laminitics have. I think he may have this pedal oseotitis (sorry about spelling).

If I can get the videos thorugh to the vet it would be so much better but everytime I attempt to send the videos my computer says the file is too big. Its very frustrating.
 
twiggy2 said:
i say looks uncomfortable in both fronts but left fore is worse. would be interesting to see horse trotting in straight line form in front and behind as I suspect from that video he is not comfortable all round-could he have got cast or similar?
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Here is Bailey on a trot up taken the same day as the videos. Sorry I don't know how to rotate the image.
http://youtu.be/DnnMvj1KINE
 
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