Equi
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Vet is involved before I go further.
In May my 20yo horse took an abscess, he had it drained and recovered well. I brought back him back into work (by Work I mean a few walks about the arena/fields and trots with about 5 mins of canter, which is basically all we do - we do t jump) and he was fine but felt weak. I had the same vet out to make sure he didn’t have any issues ongoing from the abscess. He was trotted up and that was fine, feet and ligaments all fine, but very lame after flexion on the LH so booked in for xrays. I muzzled him last week cause he’s got a bit tubby so he’s loosing weight and got a bit more spark back, but I wasn’t to ride until our xrays. We went to the clinic and xrays were clear with no real arthritic changes noted (both fetlocks) ligaments checked again etc and on the trot up vet said he looked a lot more free and stronger (horse is dragging me about this week!) - however on flexion he was still lame. Vet will inject the fetlock but he needs a bit of weight off first so he has sent us home for a month and advised zero exercise.
Now I’m willing to do anything for my horse, but I’m uncertain if the flexion test is accurate or not. He’s 20, doubt he would pass flexion ever nevermind when he’s a bit weak after having an issue and not being in work. He seemed sore on his rump after last weeks flexion and I had to get him a massage which helped.
Just musing really - what worth are flexions? This is a new young vet, Do I go back to my own vet? I’ll not be riding him for another few weeks it seems :/
Ps waiting results for cushings etc too.
In May my 20yo horse took an abscess, he had it drained and recovered well. I brought back him back into work (by Work I mean a few walks about the arena/fields and trots with about 5 mins of canter, which is basically all we do - we do t jump) and he was fine but felt weak. I had the same vet out to make sure he didn’t have any issues ongoing from the abscess. He was trotted up and that was fine, feet and ligaments all fine, but very lame after flexion on the LH so booked in for xrays. I muzzled him last week cause he’s got a bit tubby so he’s loosing weight and got a bit more spark back, but I wasn’t to ride until our xrays. We went to the clinic and xrays were clear with no real arthritic changes noted (both fetlocks) ligaments checked again etc and on the trot up vet said he looked a lot more free and stronger (horse is dragging me about this week!) - however on flexion he was still lame. Vet will inject the fetlock but he needs a bit of weight off first so he has sent us home for a month and advised zero exercise.
Now I’m willing to do anything for my horse, but I’m uncertain if the flexion test is accurate or not. He’s 20, doubt he would pass flexion ever nevermind when he’s a bit weak after having an issue and not being in work. He seemed sore on his rump after last weeks flexion and I had to get him a massage which helped.
Just musing really - what worth are flexions? This is a new young vet, Do I go back to my own vet? I’ll not be riding him for another few weeks it seems :/
Ps waiting results for cushings etc too.