ongoing undiagosed lameness- kinda have a diagnosis!!

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some of you may have read my posts re ongoing lameness only when ridden. after being refferred to a specialist he said it was left hind and came back today to nerve block stifile and SI as all other nerve blocks had no difference. well, he did both the stifile and SI and true to form, he was still as lame.
the specialist is now pretty certain its somewhere around his SI region and diagnosed a soft tissue injury. he has been honest and said this is a best guess but through a proces of elimantion thats where he has ended up.
so.. he's said 2 months box rest and physio follwed by 1 month field rest and slowly bring him back into work and see of he goes lame. if he does he says he cant go any further with this and would refer me to sue dyson at AHT although he says we have already exhaused all dianostics so they would only be repeating all the tests i've already had. given that 3 month rest will take us up to jan was planning to give him a bit longer field rest as time and weather will be against us in Jan. this would leave me still with some lee way with the insurance company.
what do you think?? anyone had expierance of soft tissue injury in this region, the specialist was very gaurded about his future...
 
looked after a horse with sacro illiac injury. 12 weeks box rest with physio etc no better. Turned out onto mini Paddock Paradise - track system - sound really quickly and riding within weeks.
 
thats interesting, whats a track system? is it like a small track or something. the only thing is he has been turned away in the field for 2 months now and is no better, in fact worse. the only improvement i have seen since this all started was when the physio came and when he was in at the vets on 1 week box rest hence them going for that route i think
 
um - not entirely controlled, no, no definitely not...... but the ability to move and the gentle incentive to move in a way that the horse was comfy with counted for a lot. I've seen poorly designed tracks where the horses just camp like they do in a field.

Incidently also saw a 'major' groin strain which was supposed to be given two weeks box rest - diagnosed on the Friday - sound on the track by Monday - as assessed by vet. And yes he was surprised.......... :-)

I wanted to add - not happy with the 'control' thing. To often that means the horse doesn't get to move in the way they need - they get route marched or worse, whereas what they really need to do is move naturally with natural incentives
 
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I don't know your horse's history so you may have tried this already, but since you can't find anything else, have you tried riding him in another saddle or bareback? R went through millions of tests before we discovered it was all down to saddle problems, despite the saddle having been fitted and re-fitted a thousand times!
 
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