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The vet has found the source of the pain, it was sidebone. She was given sterioids and is to be on box rest for a week when she's home and then another check up on how she's doing.

Will she ever recover ?:/ what are your experiences?
 
Sorry no personal experience of this.
you may get more replies if you post in Veterinary section on here.
Hope your horse makes a good recovery
 
attheponies said:
Don't know if it helps but my chap fractured a sidebone some years ago, he was lame for a while and was on box rest for 3 months but recovered completely and shod as normal.
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HollyhedgePippa said:
Ahh thats great to hear, not so worried now. :)
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HP I think maybe you are confusing two different things. Sidebone is ossification of the lateral cartilages. This should not happen at all to younger horses and only a bit to older ones. Sidebones often cause pain, especially in shod horse which cannot flex their feet as nature intended.

Some horses are sound with sidebone unless something happens to it. And in ATP's case, the sidebone was fractured. It was not the sidebone itself causing the pain, it was the fracture. So when the fracture was fixed, so was the pain.

Unless your vet has seen a fracture on your horse, then the answer to resolving her lameness is not so simple.
 
I can assure you giving up on her is the last thing ill do. She doesn't have a shoe on the foot with sidebones as vet took it off to X-ray (didnt know this When i posted). It's staying off whilst she's on box rest until she will be active on rough ground. It all depends on what happens next week, if the steroids have worked or not, and if the shoe being off is helping. Vet said she is ok to have the shoe back on though.
 
my sisters horse is 18 now. he was diagnosed with sidebone at 6. He's had spells of lameness and been kept sound on a low dose of bute when he's been sore.

He's had a couple of easy years owing to my sister being at uni, but he's been hunting again this season, and loving it.

a good farrier worked wonders for him - but I know plenty of people who found that taking shoes off was the answer.
 
Have replied in Veterinary, but to add: we have an excellent farrier who worked in partnership with vet to get our lad sound. Can't fault them, so my advice is listen to expert advice!
Ours was diagnosed at 8 years old.
He is shod in front with special pads filled with air bubbles under normal shoes. Unshod behind.
 
Its easing my worry now that younger horses have gotten sidebones... Ill do whatever it takes to get her sound if possible, whether that be shod or barefoot. :)
 
Fingers crossed for your mare, my chap was 8 when he fractured his sidebone (a few months after I purchased him and he had passed a 5 stage vetting, he did it jumping a huge ditch after spooking! and spinning) he is now 14.
 
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