Cliqmo
Well-Known Member
Sorry if this ends up long, I would love any info / personal experience please as want to get an honest and clear picture of long term prognosis for my boy
I took Boo (4yr 17hh Warmblood x Cob/ID type) to the vets for nerve blocks and xrays todays as he has had a grumbling lameness for about six weeks; during this time he has been intermittently sound, mildly lame, acutely lame and back again without rhyme or reason for the changes. He is not backed and came in lame from the field.
Today he was nerve blocked just below the fetlock but still showed lame so they 'prod tested' him and found the medial(sp?) block had not worked. A second go at this block (on the inside of the leg just below the fetlock) meant he trotted up sound.
(are you with me so far??)
Xrays showed a slightly long toe and a suggestion of ring bone to the outside (which they discounted as the problem because the nerve block on the outside had worked but he was still lame?) but no arthritis or navicular and only a very subtle "grainy" look to the coffin joint.
The vet thinks from the xrays it is likely to have been caused by a tweak or twist in the field and has recommend a coffin joint nerve block (have to go back next week) to confirm this is the site of the problem; he also advised that they will know by the amount of time it takes the block to work whether it is a joint or a soft tissue/ligament problem?
My question really is whether this is a problem that is fixable or just manageable? I have read the previous threads about various joint injections, supplements etc but can't quite fathom whether this is to rectify the problem or just to treat the symptoms?
Cookies for getting through this, any info would be massively appreciated
I took Boo (4yr 17hh Warmblood x Cob/ID type) to the vets for nerve blocks and xrays todays as he has had a grumbling lameness for about six weeks; during this time he has been intermittently sound, mildly lame, acutely lame and back again without rhyme or reason for the changes. He is not backed and came in lame from the field.
Today he was nerve blocked just below the fetlock but still showed lame so they 'prod tested' him and found the medial(sp?) block had not worked. A second go at this block (on the inside of the leg just below the fetlock) meant he trotted up sound.
(are you with me so far??)
Xrays showed a slightly long toe and a suggestion of ring bone to the outside (which they discounted as the problem because the nerve block on the outside had worked but he was still lame?) but no arthritis or navicular and only a very subtle "grainy" look to the coffin joint.
The vet thinks from the xrays it is likely to have been caused by a tweak or twist in the field and has recommend a coffin joint nerve block (have to go back next week) to confirm this is the site of the problem; he also advised that they will know by the amount of time it takes the block to work whether it is a joint or a soft tissue/ligament problem?
My question really is whether this is a problem that is fixable or just manageable? I have read the previous threads about various joint injections, supplements etc but can't quite fathom whether this is to rectify the problem or just to treat the symptoms?
Cookies for getting through this, any info would be massively appreciated
