Nailed
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Ok so Ted is my 16hh tb ex racer who is 6years old. he has lymphangitis badly and his hind legs are permenantly filled slightly. He has, in the past, pulled his superficial digial flexor tendon on his near fore leg.
Ted came in from the field about a month ago, noticing he was lame a nipped down the field and took ma pull offs and buffer with me. He had spun his shoe into the midde of his foot. No damage was caused to the foot however he was too lame to warrant a bit of foot soreness.
A week down the line, after the shoe was refitted, i decided to call the vet and said to the vet that i feared he had pulled either his superficial digital flexor tendon the his off fore or his suspensory ligament.
The vet visited and confirmed it was one or both of the above. I declined a scan as he is not a horse who is going to ever be competing at any sort of level. The vet suggested box rest at which point i explained about his history of lymphangitis and said that box rest had to be the penultamut action.
Ted was turned out into a small flat paddockand in two weeks was sound with out bute. However, he had a bit of an eventful night last night and i got to the yard today to a horse that really couldnt walk...
Had to make the decision to box rest him, so what i need is anyones tips for keeping his legs down.. preferably massages, as do bandage, do draw and am going ot struggle to get im to walk for a few days till the bute kicks in again..
Lou x
Ok so Ted is my 16hh tb ex racer who is 6years old. he has lymphangitis badly and his hind legs are permenantly filled slightly. He has, in the past, pulled his superficial digial flexor tendon on his near fore leg.
Ted came in from the field about a month ago, noticing he was lame a nipped down the field and took ma pull offs and buffer with me. He had spun his shoe into the midde of his foot. No damage was caused to the foot however he was too lame to warrant a bit of foot soreness.
A week down the line, after the shoe was refitted, i decided to call the vet and said to the vet that i feared he had pulled either his superficial digital flexor tendon the his off fore or his suspensory ligament.
The vet visited and confirmed it was one or both of the above. I declined a scan as he is not a horse who is going to ever be competing at any sort of level. The vet suggested box rest at which point i explained about his history of lymphangitis and said that box rest had to be the penultamut action.
Ted was turned out into a small flat paddockand in two weeks was sound with out bute. However, he had a bit of an eventful night last night and i got to the yard today to a horse that really couldnt walk...
Had to make the decision to box rest him, so what i need is anyones tips for keeping his legs down.. preferably massages, as do bandage, do draw and am going ot struggle to get im to walk for a few days till the bute kicks in again..
Lou x
