Lumbar back pain / weak off hind? Any experiences?

[Breez]

Hi guys,

I thought I'd post a separate thread in here re: this, if anyone has any experiences? Fairly severe lumbar pain combined with a noticeably weak quarter... obviously it is being seen to by professionals, but I'm just curious as to whether anyone has had a similar issue and where the problem stemmed from?

Much appreciated

 

[be positive]

It sounds like my horse who has just been diagnosed with sacroiliac damage, he was 2/10ths lame off hind it was weaker and dropped to that side when viewed from behind, he spent all of last year in rehab following an accident to the off hind lower down but was not getting any better, he was ok out hacking but would not move in the school, he was regularly seen by a vet and physio but it was not picked up due to them concentrating on the other injury which was a red herring unfortunately, I knew there was more going on so never pushed it and at last I have a diagnosis.
He has recently been treated with steroid injections, now onto rehab, physio and fingers crossed he comes sound.

 

[Breez]

Thanks for the reply, be positive How was he diagnosed in the end? Physio claims that it's his gluteal / hip flexors / lumbar that is the main issue, she says sacroiliac seems to be okay. His off hind quarter is visually much weaker than the other side, but he's shuffly on both hinds in trot. Everything crossed for your boy to come right!

 

[be positive]

I changed vet as I had the feeling something was really wrong, I felt it was suggested that it was behavioural and the whole situation had been extremely complex so needed a new approach, new vet took one look and made the diagnosis based on what he could see and the history I and my physio gave him, confirmed by ultrasound that it was soft tissue damage with no evidence of arthritic or bony damage, although it is not totally conclusive it tied in with everything that had happened .
My physio had suspected the SI but he had so much else going on it was difficult to pick up one area of concern, I think the muscles your physio is picking up on are likely to be due to an underlying deeper problem especially in light of his behaviour, if he is not really responding to physio, not sure how many sessions he has had, then it is more than likely that something else is going on, mine was bad but he responded well to physio which didn't make it easy to start looking for anything else, he was surprisingly stoic throughout all his rehab, the change in him now is amazing so much more relaxed and getting his personality back, although the prognosis is actually very poor it is nice that at last he feels better.
He dragged his off hind toe which was attributed to the fetlock injury.