Lameness worse on a circle in one direction?

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Ok so my horse is lame on his right hind.
He's 1/10 lame in a straight line but on the lunge he's 1/10 lame on the left rein and 3/10 lame on the right rein.
Vet is coming up soon to have a look, but does anyone have any ideas what's causing this lameness??? I was thinking maybe tendon/ligament but there's no heat or large swellings?
(He was also kicked on this leg back in January which left a solid lump of scar tissue mid cannon area but I'm not sure if it's related)
Thanks! :)
 
Nobody can tell you why your horse is lame without divine intervention. The vet will help you with that. I suspect the reason you're seeing more lameness on the right rein is that he's putting more weight onto his lame leg as it will be the inside leg. Physics.
 
Any lameness will always show up more on a circle. The vet will probably have a look at whether he is worse on a soft surface or a hard surface - usually soft surface indicates something like ligaments/tendons and hard something more foot related. Best thing is just to get the vet to see as it could be anything without seeing. Hope this helps x
 
My horse at his worse was 3tenths lame on a right circle although his injury was on his near fore, he looked lame on his right fore. This was because he was pushing off with his left leg on a right circle aggravating the pain. He was worse on a bute trial on three bute a day - the vet thought this was a mechanical lameness in the end. He had calcification in his near fore lateral branch of his suspensory due to a wheelbarrow but it was unattached calcification in the branch.

Eventually he came sound enough to exist on half a bute a day, now he is on liquid buteless and doing really well.

I'd get a lameness work up so your vet will be able to see for himself where the injury is.

Good luck x
 
applecart14 said:
My horse at his worse was 3tenths lame on a right circle although his injury was on his near fore, he looked lame on his right fore. This was because he was pushing off with his left leg on a right circle aggravating the pain. He was worse on a bute trial on three bute a day - the vet thought this was a mechanical lameness in the end. He had calcification in his near fore lateral branch of his suspensory due to a wheelbarrow but it was unattached calcification in the branch.
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I'm sorry, I can't just leave this (even though I know I probably should) . . . but can you explain the above to a lay person who doesn't understand how the branch of the suspensory can become calcified when it's soft tissue rather than bone? I am very confused by this . . . was the first time you mentioned it and still am . . .

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PolarSkye said:
Ah . . . thank you :). Good to know. Will go off and do some research . . . learn something new every day :).

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Probably the most common form of ligament calcifying is sidebone, one of the things that still sticks in my mind from training many years ago, sidebone is the ossification of the collateral cartilages of the coffin bone, the cartilage turns into bone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidebone
 
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