mild Collateral ligament damage

[Leadhorse]

Anyone have any advice in regards to collateral ligament damage in two hinds and whether an arc equine would help being the horse sound again.

Any information and experience will be greatly appreciated

 

[oldie48]

Rose has just come back into work following light damage to her collateral ligament, it was on the outside of the hock. I've no idea how she did it but almost certainly in her stable or on turnout. She wasn't really lame but she had a small amount of swelling in the hock joint (synovitis) and the ultrasound showed a few fibres in the synovial fluid. She had five weeks of box rest with hand walking for 10 mins 4x a day, followed by three weeks of ridden walk for 25 mins + 3x handwalking and she is on trot work being included in her ridden work + she is going on the walker twice a day for about 15 mins each time. The walker at her yard is huge so she's not in a tight circle at all. She's also getting supervised turnout in a pen after being ridden. She did have bute for the first month but nothing after that. Sorry I don't know about arc equine. the vet I used was a good performance vet who really knows his job and his advice was to take it slow ti give her time to heal completely.

 

[AandK]

Where is the damage? I think where it is will make a difference to the plan of action (e.g. if in the feet, barefoot rehab is a good way to go). I think success of the arcequine is anecdotal tbh, but you will get plenty of people saying it helped them/their horse. I used to have one!
My 8yo injured the lateral collateral ligament in his hock almost 2yrs ago (July 2019). He had it cleaned up during an arthroscopy and then rehabbed back to work following controlled walking and turnout in a small pen.

 

[Leadhorse]

Where is the damage? I think where it is will make a difference to the plan of action (e.g. if in the feet, barefoot rehab is a good way to go). I think success of the arcequine is anecdotal tbh, but you will get plenty of people saying it helped them/their horse. I used to have one!
My 8yo injured the lateral collateral ligament in his hock almost 2yrs ago (July 2019). He had it cleaned up during an arthroscopy and then rehabbed back to work following controlled walking and turnout in a small pen.

It's in the hoof

 

[AandK]

It's in the hoof

In that case, if it were my horse, I’d do a barefoot rehab. If you’ve not heard of this before, search on here and also look up Rockley Farm.

 

[Leadhorse]

Unfortunately we are now at 3/10ths lame which is really disappointing and have changed to bare foot rehab but I'm going to turn away and see what next year brings

 

[HorseshoeSue]

Unfortunately we are now at 3/10ths lame which is really disappointing and have changed to bare foot rehab but I'm going to turn away and see what next year brings

Have you tried increasing levels of copper and zinc in the diet? I had a similar issue with my moonlights collateral ligament a couple of years ago and switching over to a high copper and zinc balancer seemed to really help him in his recovery. I made sure to choose one with low iron, iron blocks the uptake of copper and zinc apparently.

 

[ycbm]

Collateral ligament damage in the hind feet, never mind both at the same time, is not something I've come across before. I don't think it's common. Has anyone any idea how it happened? Does the horse have hock issues, or was your farrier shoeing him unbalanced?
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[Leadhorse]

Collateral ligament damage in the hind feet, never mind both at the same time, is not something I've come across before. I don't think it's common. Has anyone any idea how it happened? Does the horse have hock issues, or was your farrier shoeing him unbalanced?
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He's never shown any signs of hock issues and I had him nerve blocked from top to bottom to rule this out and he's always been shod correctly (as far as I can tell) maybe my horse has to be a weirdo ?

 

[Michen]

How has that been diagnosed? Very odd to have it in the hinds. I assume the feet have been x rayed- to rule out a NPA?

 

[Leadhorse]

He's had x rays and an MRI scan

 

[ycbm]

It's a very rare diagnosis, in my experience, out of pure curiosity I'd love to know how your vet thinks it happened.
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[Leadhorse]

It's a very rare diagnosis, in my experience, out of pure curiosity I'd love to know how your vet thinks it happened.
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They cannot tell me how it's happened as his damage runs down the coffin joints