machannah
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Does anyone have any experience of Physitis and/or have any images of this please? Also any remedial things which can be done to help with this?
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Physitis - any experience or pictures??
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tinawales
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No knowledge of it but I typed it into google and a lot of hits came up including the Merk vet entry. Why not do a search?
machannah
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Thanks TinaWales - Ive done lots of digging/research online, just wanted a persons own perspective on it
CBFan
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yes! What do you want to know?
My filly developed this at 8 months in her knees and fetlocks and also had OCD in her stifles. Management wise she was kept on box rest and monitored through 8 weekly xrays to keep track of how it was all settling.
Diet was restricted to soaked hay.. no hard feed at all!
I also bandaged affected joints 24/7...
let me know if you want to know anything else...
here are some xrays
Fetlock (healing well):
knee (growth plates open):
OCD in stifles:
I haven't actually got any close up pics on photobucket... I'll look and see if I have any on my pc, but let me know if I can help with anything else.
My filly developed this at 8 months in her knees and fetlocks and also had OCD in her stifles. Management wise she was kept on box rest and monitored through 8 weekly xrays to keep track of how it was all settling.
Diet was restricted to soaked hay.. no hard feed at all!
I also bandaged affected joints 24/7...
let me know if you want to know anything else...
here are some xrays
Fetlock (healing well):
knee (growth plates open):
OCD in stifles:
I haven't actually got any close up pics on photobucket... I'll look and see if I have any on my pc, but let me know if I can help with anything else.
CBFan
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just to add... the physitis settled very well... OCD was sorted with surgery, unfortunately the extent of my filly's OCD will limit her usability as a working horse... otherwise prognosis was excellent!
machannah
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oh brilliant!! thanks so much CBfan!!
Basically have a 11 month old foal, had ballerina syndrome at about 3 months which was resolved by shoe extension. Had a slight toe out but was being managed by regular trimming. His big brother managed to kick him on the outside of said knee which had the toe out, which has now mostly gone down, however the knee still has some swelling in it and when checked previously (in regards to the kick) some heat. The leg now looks to have turned slightly and he is now walking with a deviation at the knee according to my farrier which is a bigger deviation than that which was there 6 weeks ago (just after the kick happened and his last feet trim) and i cant imagine so much should/would have changed in 6 weeks
He seems to grow very irregularly, and im not sure if the turning out is part and parcel of this unbalanced growth and then residual heat/swelling in the knee is due to Physitis or something else and therefore affecting his movement due to pain related issues. Luckily I have his x-rays from when he was a foal so have something to compare to - but basically wanted to know if the above symptons could be caused by Physitis or whether I am off the track completely on this
Does this sound like anything you have experienced?In regards to feed - he has never been fed anything other than very good quality hay and hayledge (he was barn kept from dec till mid april) and now on good grass.
Basically have a 11 month old foal, had ballerina syndrome at about 3 months which was resolved by shoe extension. Had a slight toe out but was being managed by regular trimming. His big brother managed to kick him on the outside of said knee which had the toe out, which has now mostly gone down, however the knee still has some swelling in it and when checked previously (in regards to the kick) some heat. The leg now looks to have turned slightly and he is now walking with a deviation at the knee according to my farrier which is a bigger deviation than that which was there 6 weeks ago (just after the kick happened and his last feet trim) and i cant imagine so much should/would have changed in 6 weeks
He seems to grow very irregularly, and im not sure if the turning out is part and parcel of this unbalanced growth and then residual heat/swelling in the knee is due to Physitis or something else and therefore affecting his movement due to pain related issues. Luckily I have his x-rays from when he was a foal so have something to compare to - but basically wanted to know if the above symptons could be caused by Physitis or whether I am off the track completely on this
Does this sound like anything you have experienced?In regards to feed - he has never been fed anything other than very good quality hay and hayledge (he was barn kept from dec till mid april) and now on good grass.
CBFan
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hmmm... my filly had pretty wonky legs in the end but physitis is swelling at the growth plate caused by irregular growth... I supose it is possible that the kick caused some disturbance at the growth plate, causeing the physitis... its a tricky one... yes heat and swelling are a sign bit is it on the growth plate?
I would speak to your vet. remedial shoeing might help (my farrier sugested it would help my filly but she ended up going back to her breeder in the end so we didn't get that far)
I would speak to your vet. remedial shoeing might help (my farrier sugested it would help my filly but she ended up going back to her breeder in the end so we didn't get that far)
madeleinewachman
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I think getting a vets advice on this one is probably the best move forward.
I have had one youngster who showed some physitis on his front knees, the vet recomended I not feed him too much hard feed, that I use something more like a stud balancer that baileys produce and that ifthe ground was hard to bring him in.
Another vet with regards to another youngster who was upright in his tendons recomended small amounts of turn out to help them stretch, however now that the youngster is out 24/7 he said that if they start to go upright again to bring him in for a couple of days. I.e the secret is to get a balance of steady turn out and periods of rest.
I have also heard of problems related to physitis if the mare and youngster are on very rich, highly fertilised grass. If the mare is eating very rich grass which does not have the right balance of nutrients this can be passed on in the milk, like wise a weaned youngster on rich grass can have the same problems as it can cause them to grow too quickly. You might want to have the nutritional value of your grass analysed and the soil analysed to see if there is the correct balance to support healthy growth of your youngster.
I have had one youngster who showed some physitis on his front knees, the vet recomended I not feed him too much hard feed, that I use something more like a stud balancer that baileys produce and that ifthe ground was hard to bring him in.
Another vet with regards to another youngster who was upright in his tendons recomended small amounts of turn out to help them stretch, however now that the youngster is out 24/7 he said that if they start to go upright again to bring him in for a couple of days. I.e the secret is to get a balance of steady turn out and periods of rest.
I have also heard of problems related to physitis if the mare and youngster are on very rich, highly fertilised grass. If the mare is eating very rich grass which does not have the right balance of nutrients this can be passed on in the milk, like wise a weaned youngster on rich grass can have the same problems as it can cause them to grow too quickly. You might want to have the nutritional value of your grass analysed and the soil analysed to see if there is the correct balance to support healthy growth of your youngster.