Lameness work up tomorrow... hoping for answers

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Rosie’s ulcer issue is ongoing, she’s now been off work since the beginning of Feb. Vets thought she was sound, she had the physio out for a routine appointment who also thought she was sound until she released everything and tada Rosie goes subtly lame and has some swelling on her right stifle.

She goes in tomorrow for a hindlimb lameness work up.

Hoping for answers and hoping that if there is an issue it may well be the cause of the ulcers so we can treat both and maybe at the end of all this have a happy horse back!

Please wish Rosie luck!
 
Good luck Rosie!

Hoping for a relatively easily resolved niggle for you. Fingers crossed x
 
DabDab said:
Good luck Rosie!

Hoping for a relatively easily resolved niggle for you. Fingers crossed x
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Thank you. Physio was worried it could be OCD because of her age and breed... I am hoping for a strain in the field!!
 
Good luck and let us know how it goes. I am going through this at the moment and it's so stressful and worrying! He is not lame, just not right either... helpful!
 
She’s bilaterally lame behind, and it’s definitely both stifles. Don’t have a diagnosis but they are x raying and ultrasounding now :(
 
Nothing sinister found, just inflammation on both stifles that she must have done slipping in the field or something but just soft tissue inflammation so she is having them medicated today
 
Oh fantastic, that's great news (well, relatively speaking anyway). Do you think she's got herself all tweaked up and that has triggered the ulcer attack?
 
DabDab said:
Oh fantastic, that's great news (well, relatively speaking anyway). Do you think she's got herself all tweaked up and that has triggered the ulcer attack?
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That’s what I think, and that’s what I think has caused the behaviour ridden. Thinking about it, the thing that made me call the vet was when she point blank refused to canter and just bunny hopped instead, which in hindsight should have suggested stifle.

There are still some suggestions being made that she has an attitude problem and her behaviour ridden is nothing to do with the pain she’s been in
 
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Abi90 said:
There are still some suggestions being made that she has an attitude problem and her behaviour ridden is nothing to do with the pain she’s been in
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I would just treat those suggestions with the contempt which they deserve!

IME, both children and animals, always have a reason for their behaviours. Whether that reason is physical or emotional, abnormal behaviour is usually caused some form of pain. Good horse-owners listen to their animals and recognise that pain, poor ones disregard what their animals are trying desperately to tell them and carry on regardless.

I am glad that you have a diagnosis and that it something manageable.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I would just treat those suggestions with the contempt which they deserve!

IME, both children and animals, always have a reason for their behaviours. Whether that reason is physical or emotional, abnormal behaviour is usually caused some form of pain. Good horse-owners listen to their animals and recognise that pain, poor ones disregard what their animals are trying desperately to tell them and carry on regardless.

I am glad that you have a diagnosis and that it something manageable.
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Thank you. She had been going really well then started throwing her head a lot and becoming backward over about a week and then we lost canter, then I phoned a vet. She’s subsequently point blank refusing to go forward and bucks if you ask her to, so I haven’t been riding or working her until we got to the bottom of it. She has ulcers and stifle pain, in my mind that’s more than enough to explain the behaviour.
 
She has a medial miniscus bulge in each stifle, both have been medicated. Vet thinks it’s something that’s happened because she’s still growing and hopefully the steroids will help it settle down and it shouldn’t flare up again
 
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