laminitis caused by rebalancing foot?

[Jericho]

Some of you may remember my posts about my horse who has collapsed heels and went lame. He has had xrays and no signs of anything untoward (although soft tissue damage may also be there which the xray cant pick up). Anyhow he had remedial shoes put on and foot rebalanced which I know will take time. He was on bute for 14 days but ever since he has had the shoes on he has pawed the ground and generally looked uncomfortable. Vet initially said he is just getting used to different balance and also he may be irritated by overreach boots which he permanently lives in ( I dont think so..) Anyhow he looks worse than ever and pottery on front feet now (7 days after last bute). Vet is coming tomorrow but suspects it could be laminitis either by spring grass or because of the stress on the foot.

Now I know about grass laminitis and I guess it could be the cause although he is typically a thin TB type, grass is long but fairly poor (lots of buttercup and other weeds) and he has had haylage all winter so I would have thought he would be very low risk. No history of it before and used to live out 24/7. I will of course taken the necessary precautions.... just in case.....

So to the other...... can anyone tell me about their experiences of stress induced laminitis brought on by trauma to foot / remedial shoeing / rebalancing etc? is laminitis due to this likely?

If its not one thing, its another!!!!!!

 

[blackcob]

My horse suffered from trauma-induced laminits just before Christmas, caused by the farrier doing an uncharacteristically poor job. He took the toe much shorter than usual and put the nails in slightly too high.

In our case, she was presenting with all the signs of laminitis within an hour of having the shoes on - classic rocking horse stance, sweating and unwilling to move. She'd also never suffered from grass-induced laminitis, as she's kept on bare pasture all spring and summer. Being the middle of winter she was hunting fit and the lightest she'd been all year so 'normal' laminitis was not implicated.

Treatment involved removing the offending shoes immediately, giving her a sedative and painkiller and box rest on a thick deep bed.

She was pain free within 24 hours and happy to charge around the stable within 48, although she was a bit sore on concrete for up to about 5 days after. Two weeks later she was sound on hard ground and had shoes back on then, and was being worked as normal a week later.

Touch wood there's been no long lasting effects at all, although obviously I'm still cautious about pasture management in springtime, and I've been warned she's now more likely to have the grass-induced type as a result.

 

[girla]

Liaminitis can be brought on by stress in the horse, as i had a mare a few years back that had lost a foal at about 3mths old and then after about 4 days of loosing the foal she started to show classic signs of laminitis. It wasn't to do with the grass or food it was, as the Vet said and i believe through stress. She was put on a course on antibiotics, bute & the usual husbandry to do with lami and after about a week showed a vast improvement. Have you checked your boys pulse & is he showing heat in his hoofs. How is his stance is he leaning back of the front or all 4 and how is he turning in sharpp circles (can he cope with that)

I will say one thing though your boy sounds as though maybe the trouble started when he had the shoes put on, i don't think a horse would show pain just because he is getting used to balance of shoes.

If his heels have collapsed did the farrier not put on a wedge support for him to stop the strain on his already damaged ligaments. He sounds to me that he should certainly be back on pain relief or as soon as the vet has checked him out he should start on the pain relief for him and perhaps liase with the farrier to see where else you can go from there.

Good luck with

 

[peanut]

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he is typically a thin TB type,

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So is mine, but he has grass laminitis so please take heed.

I hope you get to the bottom of it. Good luck - it's an awful condition.

 

[rocketdog69]

I knew someone one who was slightly bonkers and decided to go all new age and funky and go down the barefoot route. Farrier came, took all four shoes off, silly cow put horse out in paddock. Within a couple of hours it was sweating, puffing and blowing and looking very laminitic. Got horse out of paddock, called owner and vet. The horse had laminitis brought on by the shock of having its shoes taken off!

It recovered quite quicklyb tho!