Ouch... being kicked

[Leam_Carrie]

My horse mistook me for a Shetland trying to take her food. Caught me in the thigh with a kick from a back hoof.

Never been kicked before. I’m guessing a good bruise will follow. It seems to be swelling. Any tips?

 

[Shilasdair]

Are you often mistaken for a Shetland?
Perhaps it's time to deal with the lockdown body hair?

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

It's too late now but chase the mare all round the field! How dare she kick out when you are there! You could try arnica cream on the bruise.

 

[Leam_Carrie]

Are you often mistaken for a Shetland?
Perhaps it's time to deal with the lockdown body hair?

Thank you, that made me laugh!

 

[Shilasdair]

And the serious answer is - if you think you have a broken bone, then A and E is the answer.
If not - rest, use ice on it, or a support bandage (tubigrip or similar) depending on where it is - and elevate to stop swelling.
Maybe take ibuprofen, or arnica pills work well for bruising/muscle injury.

 

[MereChristmas]

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments/what-are-bruises/

 

[Leam_Carrie]

It's too late now but chase the mare all round the field! How dare she kick out when you are there! You could try arnica cream on the bruise.

She did get told off at the time (not quite chasing her round the field nor my first instinct to kick her back!). I was so surprised it was a bit of a delayed reaction.

 

[Leam_Carrie]

And the serious answer is - if you think you have a broken bone, then A and E is the answer.
If not - rest, use ice on it, or a support bandage (tubigrip or similar) depending on where it is - and elevate to stop swelling.
Maybe take ibuprofen, or arnica pills work well for bruising/muscle injury.

It’s not broken. She was really warning the Shetland to stay away and got me. And it landed on the thigh muscle. I wouldn’t want to be kicked properly!

Feel like arnica is an omission from our medicine cabinet.

 

[Circe2]

I almost got kicked in the knee a couple of months ago, as I played Russian roulette by trying to clean my boy’s willy - narrowly missed the knee, and got hit in the soft bit of my lower thigh, just slightly above. Bruise took ages to go away, but was surprisingly painless after the initial impact (!)

Some photographic evidence of what you might expect (I can only apologise if it’s too graphic - but I’d like to think I’m sharing in the name of science...):

 

[shortstuff99]

I recently got kicked square in the bum by my youngster and the bruise was Fantastic!! I would put a pic on here but it is my bum ?.

If nothing is broken then I just leave it, they go away eventually.

 

[Gloi]

I got a perfect hoofprint on my thigh when I checked if my mare was waxing up. Went into a hard lump that took weeks to go and has left a dent in the muscle where the toe hit still there 30 years later.
Yours will get better in time.

 

[Keith_Beef]

Only two pieces of advice.

1. Don't get kicked again.
2. If you insist on getting kicked, the best place to be is as close to the horse as possible. The hoof starts off moving slowly, accelerates until it is at maximum speed when almost at full reach. So if you are really close to start of the kick, the blow is much less severe.

The skin isn't broken, the bone isn't broken; if you can walk on it, then there isn't any serious damage. Be prepared for the bruising to spread and change through lots of pretty shades of blue, purple and yellow. And wait for it to pass.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

I got kicked clipping the other day (I'm not having a good season so far ???). I know full well that the little barsteward is nifty with his back legs and so I was standing right up by his shoulder whilst doing his elbows. It just shows how flexible the bugger is that he managed to land a decent blow to my thigh that deadened my leg for a minute or so! My bruise is currently at the black stage.

The horse really is a creature! He is all sweetness and nice and generally a lovely person if you don't really go near his back legs. He doesn't give any warning of kicking either he just does it. But he doesn't do it to warn you or miss you. Oh no! This little dickwad lines up, aims and then fires off a shot that will do damage and break bones if possible! He killed one of the yards favourite horses - along with the 2 people riding the pair of them but that's another story for another day ? he lashed out and shattered the horses bone above the knee. He is quite literally lethal.

 

[Dontforgetaboutme]

Ice & painkillers for the pain and arnica for the bruising. I got whammed by horse (not mine, they wouldn’t dare lift a hoof) on the thigh. Was tender to touch but was close enough to kicker not to have break as KB describes. Was stiff for a while but arnica took the rainbow colours out. Was summertime so that was a bummer for wearing shorts!

 

[pansymouse]

When I did a lot of martial arts many years ago we always rubbed our bruises out either with smooth metal things that looked like stones or the heels of our hands. All you do is apply moderate pressure and work in a circular motion constantly changing direction. I think it helps breakdown the blood clot - however it works I always found it makes bruises less deep and clear up quicker.

 

[scruffyponies]

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I got a perfect hoofprint on my thigh when I checked if my mare was waxing up. Went into a hard lump that took weeks to go and has left a dent in the muscle where the toe hit still there 30 years later.
Yours will get better in time.

I have one of those too.

For the OP, also a bit late, but I advise a bath with epsom salts asap.

 

[Sprat]

I got kicked clipping the other day (I'm not having a good season so far ???). I know full well that the little barsteward is nifty with his back legs and so I was standing right up by his shoulder whilst doing his elbows. It just shows how flexible the bugger is that he managed to land a decent blow to my thigh that deadened my leg for a minute or so! My bruise is currently at the black stage.

The horse really is a creature! He is all sweetness and nice and generally a lovely person if you don't really go near his back legs. He doesn't give any warning of kicking either he just does it. But he doesn't do it to warn you or miss you. Oh no! This little dickwad lines up, aims and then fires off a shot that will do damage and break bones if possible! He killed one of the yards favourite horses - along with the 2 people riding the pair of them but that's another story for another day ? he lashed out and shattered the horses bone above the knee. He is quite literally lethal.

Christ that sounds horrendous!!

 

[Gloi]

When I did a lot of martial arts many years ago we always rubbed our bruises out either with smooth metal things that looked like stones or the heels of our hands. All you do is apply moderate pressure and work in a circular motion constantly changing direction. I think it helps breakdown the blood clot - however it works I always found it makes bruises less deep and clear up quicker.

? We knew never to tell sensai of a bruise or he would dig his thumbs in it and massage it in a way that hurt more than the original injury. Though it did work.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Christ that sounds horrendous!!

He didn't kill the people, I didn't word it very well! I meant the 2 people that were riding the horses and the horse that did the kicking were the ones that killed other horse. Both riders know that the horse kicked, the one on it knew she should turn it's arse into the bush, the one on the other horse knew not to go near behind it. Both ignored their instructions. Hence THEE longest 20 minutes of my life waiting for a vet knowing the outcome. I will never, ever forgive either of the people for it - the one on the horse that died also made up some utterly horrendous lies about it all too. The horse did what the horse always did and he will never change in that respect.

 

[Baywonder]

It's too late now but chase the mare all round the field! How dare she kick out when you are there! You could try arnica cream on the bruise.

This worked for me! I hadn't had my old boy very long. I turned him out one day, and as I was giving him a fuss, he turned and bit me on my thigh. It REALLY hurt. I swiftly walloped his backside, and chased him up the field shouting and calling him everything under the sun!

He never put a hoof wrong after that.

 

[PurBee]

I got cow kicked by my mare when i first got her, she was literally just settling in and more freaked by the move than she let on.
She whammed me on the thigh, just checking on her before going shopping, so spent the afternoon hobbling round the supermarket!
She bit me later that week too. I was distraught having been told ‘shes a sweetie, never kicks, bites..” ?

Now we know each other she is a sweetie, but a bitch to anyone she doesnt know!

Calendula cream helps too, arnica as suggested, or aloe vera as that soaks in deep into the dermis and heals deeper.

Hope you heal up swiftly.

 

[Sprat]

He didn't kill the people, I didn't word it very well! I meant the 2 people that were riding the horses and the horse that did the kicking were the ones that killed other horse. Both riders know that the horse kicked, the one on it knew she should turn it's arse into the bush, the one on the other horse knew not to go near behind it. Both ignored their instructions. Hence THEE longest 20 minutes of my life waiting for a vet knowing the outcome. I will never, ever forgive either of the people for it - the one on the horse that died also made up some utterly horrendous lies about it all too. The horse did what the horse always did and he will never change in that respect.

Ah ok I understand now. Still horrendous though, and incredibly sad as it sounds like it was an easily avoidable situation