PSD - Advice needed please

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Alee has been diagnosed with PSD in her left hind and probably her right hind too. She is at the Royal Vet College at the moment and they will be nerve blocking her tight hind tomorrow to be sure.
The vet at the RVC has suggested shock wave therapy. From the research I have read (and believe me I have read alot) it seems that shockwave therapy works better in acute cases. Now I feel that Alee's case has been going on now for a number of months, maybe even up to a year so I am wondering if I would better to go straight for sugery. She is only 4 and if the schockwave doesn't work and I then need to box rest her further after surgery then I feel that this amount of box rest may screw her up completly.
I obviously want what is best for her but I also want to be able to actually get on her gain at the end of it all. Also if I do decided to go for sugery who would you recommend? I would travel to the end of the earth to find the best surgeon for her!
If anyone has any thoughts or advice on this them please let me know.
Thanks in advance

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The surgery has a good sucess rate, and as you say, shockwave is only really effective for acute cases.

Best person is probably Sue Dyson at the Animal Health Trust, who has pioneered the understanding of this problem.

PM JetSet on here, her mare had the surgery earlier this year and is now back in work and competing.

Fingers crossed for your lovely girl. At least they know what is wrong with her.

xxx

 

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PM JetSet on here, her mare had the surgery earlier this year and is now back in work and competing.

Fingers crossed for your lovely girl. At least they know what is wrong with her.

xxx

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Already done - she was the first person I thought of and has been a great help already!!!

Thanks alot I am quite relieved I now have a diagnosis.

 

[xebec]

Another one to give a thumbs up for Sue Dyson and SWT. She gave my old boy a 33% chance of coming sound again after she saw the scan, but he did, and the haul was worth it . Another person to chat to is Chris Bathe, he was very helpful and he talked through the options with me when I was uhmming and ahhing as to what to do.

 

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As I've already said I've no experience with PSD but I'd like to support the thumbs up to Sue Dyson who I have used. She is a fantastic vet.

 

[dieseldog]

My horse had it done by Ollie Crowe at Willesley a year ago. She is completly sound behind now - just done her front leg. I think she had had PSD for probably 3 years before I bought her - but the last people didn't care that she wasn't right, jumped her and sold her on.

If you have to pay for it yourself Willesley charged me £1,500 for the op, this was a year ago. Everyone else I spoke to had paid £3k.

Sue Dyson though does seem to be the lady that invented PSD and it's cure - in the past I think it has been misdiagnosed as spavins.

If you think she has had it a while I would go for the operation. Also get both legs done, as if they have it in one they more than likely will get it in the other. Dolly was lame on the one hind and when they scanned the other leg they could see the start of changes.

Good luck. She was only on box rest for a month and was allowed to be led out for grass a few times a day, she was then in restricted turnout for 2 months and then out as normal. I started riding her again after 6 weeks, 2 months of walk and she was back in normal work after 6 months.

 

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mine had PSD in 2002 - he had 3 lots of shockwave and was back in full work in 6mths.

 

[seabiscuit]

Sorry to hear about your horse

But how did she go from being lame in front to being lame behind??
I thought it was all in her front feet and she was lame in front in a circle on hard ground??

 

[angiebaby]

Mine had the op last October on right hind. He doesn't do box rest well, so after 2 weeks was turned out in a small paddock for another 2 weeks then out with the others. I left him until May this year before bringing him back into work.
He was fairly stiff to start with, but now in full work and jumped for the first time yesterday!!

Took him to Oakham in Rutland, and was approx £1300, he was there for 6 days

 

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Sorry to hear about your horse

But how did she go from being lame in front to being lame behind??
I thought it was all in her front feet and she was lame in front in a circle on hard ground??

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Nope it had always been her backs. The foot balance problems are in her backs aswell. There was one incident a few months back where she fell over and just looked lame on every leg but she was fine the next day!!! Not sure if I had posted on here about that or not.