Muscle tightness

[Lmorrow]

My horse has had a massive tie up ages ago now and has never been completely right. I had the physio out for her twice now and they have mentioned getting her X-rayed to possibly look for kissing spines. These are the two images of her physio report. She’s mentioned muscle spasms a lot too.
I have her booked in again at the end of this month, thermal scanning to be done and next up was X-rays.
would you just go straight down the X-ray road?

 

[Regandal]

Sounds suspiciously like a PSSM type thing. Do you have any pictures of the horse?

 

[paddy555]

if she was mine I would start by giving high dose vit E 10000iu per day, also making sure she was always warm and rugged and didn't get wet, then making sure she was exercised daily in some form, long reining if you can't ride and seeing if there was any improvement.

 

[I'm Dun]

Test for PSSM. The type 1 test is cheap and non invasive. and results come back quickly. Type 2 test is a bit trickier and would need looking into and you deciding what is best. But start with the type 1 test and go from there.

 

[SEL]

My horse has had a massive tie up ages ago now and has never been completely right. I had the physio out for her twice now and they have mentioned getting her X-rayed to possibly look for kissing spines. These are the two images of her physio report. She’s mentioned muscle spasms a lot too.
I have her booked in again at the end of this month, thermal scanning to be done and next up was X-rays.
would you just go straight down the X-ray road?

I wouldn't until I'd ruled PSSM in or out. Too many people with myopathy horses have run up £1000s in vet bills with no conclusions because it isn't tested for until a late stage

 

[ycbm]

I don't understand, since you've had a known tie up event, why the vet and physio haven't already suggested PSSM, it's a shoe-in for all the stuff you've had going on. What breeding is the horse?
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[Lmorrow]

 

[Lmorrow]

This is her. I’m not getting her tested for PSSM. Thankyou

 

[Lmorrow]

This is her. I’m not getting her tested for PSSM. Thankyou

And she’s a warmblood

 

[I'm Dun]

This is her. I’m not getting her tested for PSSM. Thankyou

You know she has it from the tie up and continuing issues. The test is just confirming it. Are you not testing as you intend to just treat her for it?

 

[Lmorrow]

You know she has it from the tie up and continuing issues. The test is just confirming it. Are you not testing as you intend to just treat her for it?

Sorry I didn’t mean that. She is getting tested for PSSM Friday and also having back X-rays.

 

[Bob notacob]

This whole subject is a grey area of our knowledge . Call it tie up .epsm, pssm ,tie up or cramp. Its all facets of the same thing. There is a genetic link, but also an exercise overload created disposition. Yes vitamin E has been shown to help ,but frankly ,we are in the dark ages on this one. Once a horse (or human) has seriously cramped for whatever reason ,there is a predisposition for it to return(for lesser reasons ). I am glad my horse does not have to live with this (though I do) . Muscle cramp is incredibly painful . As a human I have at least ,the ability to ameliorate the problem . As I type this I have felt impending cramp in my leg muscles and can move to try to ease it before cramp strikes. It tends to be the larger muscle groups , (as in horses) Keeping warm helps . Have tried electrolytes with only mixed success. Possibly taken them too late? I would be seriously concerned about the welfare of a horse that regularly had bouts of tie up .Would love to know the answer to this. There has been some very good research in America on Epsm.