Recovery from fetlock joint injuries?

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After a month of being pumped full of everything the vet could think of to medicate his fetlock joint injury (nobody has a clue how or when he did it) Flash still isn't completely sound. He's got a month of short walks ahead of him but the vet doesn't think he'll ever stand up to dressage or jumping again, even tho we're keeping everything crossed, he's only 7
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Does anyone have any experience of fetlock joint injuries and recovery from them? I can't believe this is happening
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It's kind of complicated to explain! Nerve blocks showed that the pain was inside his joint so he's had steroids and hyaluronic acid injected into the joint, and has been on a course of cartrophen injections. An Xray showed slight bone remodelling of the sesamoid. That's all we know really. There has never been a visible injury or heat or swelling in that leg unless it happened over 4 years ago. He hasn't been lame on it before to my knowledge.
 
My horse has fetlock issues. When he was 7 he went very lame, had all the x-rays etc and bone showing slight remodelling, nothing overly major though. After have Cartrophen and other injections, I gave him a year off.

He's now at 9yrs on 1 bute a day and is hacking happily and competing low level dressage. He is also sound if I switch to No Bute, but not sound if on nothing. I've been riding him again for 16months now and hacking normally.

Fingers crossed that yours comes sound, its hearbreaking isn't it.
 
It is heartbreaking
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Glad your boy is getting on OK. Flash was only ever hopping lame after a flexion test, the rest of the time it was only very slight, more something you could feel than see. He's now just 'not right'. I really don't enjoy hacking much and once the clocks change it will be impossible unless I go in the pitch black
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