Pelvic area pain....what next (long sorry!)

Good luck, glad you've started the ball rolling :) Let us know how you get on, i really do like your horse he's got a lovely way about him.
 
YasandCrystal said:
vet made me laugh and said that she would be laughed out of Newmarket if she said he was being referred for Pelvic problem on basis of shiatsu practitioner, iridologist and AC - lol!!!).

If he doesn't have a pelvic problem I will eat my very large sunhat! I will post an update I promise.
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Ha ha get ready to eat your hat!
 
Oh ye of little faith! lol
Let's wait and see! I hope they find something as clearly something is wrong - I just hope it is fixable!
He is being so loving on the Danilon - presumably really appreciating being pain free.
 
Not read all the replies but have you tried a bowen therapist? I had one treat my mare and shes the only person that ever made any real difference with her.
 
Tempi said:
Not read all the replies but have you tried a bowen therapist? I had one treat my mare and shes the only person that ever made any real difference with her.
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Arrgh!! The whole point is that we're on the way to (hopefully) getting a more accurate diagnosis, not wasting more time and money on alternative 'medicine'!
 
Dannyvet you will be pleased to know that my horse is booked for a full body scan at AHT Newmarket later this month! The vet agrees something is not right, but he is not lame enough for a proper lameness workup. He intermittently drops a hip on his right side which is odd and is very reluctant to go on his right rein.
It may well be that he can eventually have something like McTimoney therapy, but I suspect and hope that whatever is wrong is fixable and may benefit from a serious treatment like shockwave.

I will of course update later June after his scan. Thanks again everyone.
 
PapaFrita said:
So is veterinary medicine. From the vids, he certainly does look very sore behind, especially on the right. May I ask why you didn't get the vet in before the iridologist, etc?
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I didn't get vet in before because the horse was just so aggressive and hard to handle. He was scoped and diagnosed with stomach/pyloric ulcers in January (for which he could be doped) and turned away for 6 weeks on the vets advice. You can't do a lameness work up on a doped horse and he was too unpredictable to risk my vet's health frankly. She needs to live to diagnose and treat another case - I am serious he was THAT bad.
He was teetering on the 'pts' route. I think I did explain somewhere that I had such conflicting advice from friends/experts that this just muddied the water completely for us as owners. We had never had to deal with a horse like this so safety was firstly paramount. Friends said he was aggressive due to our being scared - others said he was telling us something etc.

Now he has absolutely changed attitude - 360 degress!! It has taken 6 months, but I am happy that he can now be safely handled. I am not worried in having him throughly examined. I am pleased that we have tackled bits at a time as this is an abused horse and he needs time and consistency.
Also the vids are deceptive because he really only firstly when we got him showed a bit of a 'stuffy' ridden attitude and didin't quite track up. It is only recently (apart from when we think he slipped in the field at Christmas and was sore) that the real stiffness and soreness in the hind has shown. A friend has been working him daily in hand and with the use of some ground poles - this has imo caused this lameness to really flare up/show up and made thorough investigation appropriate. Hope this explains. I have absolutely full faith and trust in vets, that said I am not knee jerk fast to claim off my insurance to be fair to them too.
Will let you all know the outcome.
 
Oh how I wish I was eating my hat and the #charlatans# were all wrong! And that Sue Dyson would have sent me home as a neurotic owner, but no.

Hi not good news. He has changes/problems in the scaro iliac region. No wonder he was unhappy ridden poor lad. Interestingly he can buck for England and looking at other sacro iliac threads on here people thought that a horse with that problem couldn#t. He also continually kicks out with that hind too - another symptom Sue Dyson has documented in one of her studies. I don#t know why I should be at all surprised - iridology said pelvis, as did an AC, as did shiatsu. He will be injected Monday and I can fetch him Tuesday and start a physio programme.

I have also rang a McTimmoney person - so many people say such good things about that for sacro iliac region dysfunction.
At least I have an answer - poor boy. :(
 
I agree that those that put the time into their horses tend to have the worst luck :(

Sorry you haven't had the news you were hoping for. I know how you feel sadly.
 
LaurenM said:
I agree that those that put the time into their horses tend to have the worst luck :(

Sorry you haven't had the news you were hoping for. I know how you feel sadly.
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Thank-you Lauren. You know hard as it has been I would do it all again. Every horse deserves to be listened to and I know I have done right by him. He may come right yet - I won't give up, but at least now I know his problem and he certainly will not be left or ridden in pain.
 
That's a real shame, sorry to hear that. But Sue Dyson is probably the best person in the country for this type of thing so you know you've gone to the foremost authority to get a diagnosis so at least you're not left wondering. It's not like you haven't done your best for him.
 
Tempi said:
Not read all the replies but have you tried a bowen therapist? I had one treat my mare and shes the only person that ever made any real difference with her.
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This is my next course of action - bowen and physio and pessoa work. Thanks
 
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Danny Vet said:
That's a real shame, sorry to hear that. But Sue Dyson is probably the best person in the country for this type of thing so you know you've gone to the foremost authority to get a diagnosis so at least you're not left wondering. It's not like you haven't done your best for him.
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Thanks Danny Vet - oh yes I know how lucky I am to have had Sue - she is the best. The great thing is that my horse was an absolute gentleman at Newmarket - she said he had so many needles and he didn't object at all. He was there for over a week.

We will try and build the muscle and see. I will keep him whatever - would only pts if he is in too much pain to enjoy life, but he will soon tell us that I know.
 
Fingers crossed hunny that it all works out for him and you.

It's pants to get a diagnosis like that, but it's better than not knowing (been there, done that).

Hope your next steps help him. He sounds very lucky, after his cr*p start in life, to have found you. Not what you were looking for, but sometimes those in need end up in just the right place. Hugs.
 
MrsMozart said:
Fingers crossed hunny that it all works out for him and you.

It's pants to get a diagnosis like that, but it's better than not knowing (been there, done that).

Hope your next steps help him. He sounds very lucky, after his cr*p start in life, to have found you. Not what you were looking for, but sometimes those in need end up in just the right place. Hugs.
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Thanks MrsM and I will let you know how we get on next week! x
 
karen.close said:
Hi Yasmin

Have everything crossed that the injections help xxx
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Thanks Karen - he is striding out happily enough but he 'clicks'. I have ordered a tub of Boswella - I saw you are thinking about that in another thread. It works out little more than Glucosamine and as Sue reckoned the latter won't help my boy I will give Boswella a go. And acupuncture for any pain !!:)
 
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