Odd Shoulders

[Jade2007]

You might have read some of my posts about Boomer being lame. Basically, it started around 25th June and he's still not quite right

He's 16, (was) fit and does a fair amount of competing.

We don't know why he went lame, I was riding him one day and he was lame

There's not been any swelling or heat and we've tried everything - support bandaging, hosing, box rest, turned away in field etc. but he's still not quite right.

We has the farrier up today and he said that it's definatly not his leg, it's more his shoulder. We then looked and realised that one of his shoulders (the normal one) is round, as it should be, but the stiff one is flat as if he's got muscle wastage there

We have a chiropracta (think that the's word?) coming up tomorow, we did have a different one but she said that there's not problem with this front end it's his hip

- ehh, no, there is no doubt that it is the front. This one was recommended by my farrier so hopefully she'll be better.

I'm sure she'll answer our questions but in the mean time ..

What could have caused this?

Why has the muscle gone on that shoulder because it is stiff?

Does it sound serious?

Any answers would be helpful

x

 

[PennyJ]

Well I'm no expert but I have a pony who has an old shoulder inuury.

He probably tweaked it doing a tight turn.
Muscle wastage may be due to holding himself differently to stop bad shoulder hurting so much.

No it's not necessarily serious.
I use a Mctimoney practitioner to sort my pony out.