acw295
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Anyone any experiences of bringing back to work after this type of surgery?
Molly had hind splint fracture surgery in late June (orginal injury was mid May), long spell of box rest then small paddock turnout and she is now back to "normal" all day turnout in proper sized paddock with company. Obviously she has lost all her muscle and fitness in that time
She started ridden walk work 10 days ago (12 weeks post surgery). Vet advised 15 mins walk daily for a week, then increasing by 5 mins a day until doing 1hr (we are currently at 35 mins). Keep at that until the end of week 4 and then start to introduce bursts of trot (this is all out hacking) for another 4 weeks. After that she should be ok to reintroduce schooling, canter etc gradually. But bottom line is walk, walk, walk as much as poss.
This is fine on paper but I've also managed to injure myself in the meantime, still on crutches and will be having an op on my knee myself at some point. I can get on to do walk work but not much more. More worryingly it is also getting dark and I work full time so fitting in 1hr hacking daily will be a struggle!
Anyone any experiences of doing return to work hacking in winter in the dark?! Our yard is on a restricted byway so have approx 1 mile of traffic free track I can use (2 miles if I cross a road) but she's not great in the dark.
It's going to be a long winter
Molly had hind splint fracture surgery in late June (orginal injury was mid May), long spell of box rest then small paddock turnout and she is now back to "normal" all day turnout in proper sized paddock with company. Obviously she has lost all her muscle and fitness in that time
She started ridden walk work 10 days ago (12 weeks post surgery). Vet advised 15 mins walk daily for a week, then increasing by 5 mins a day until doing 1hr (we are currently at 35 mins). Keep at that until the end of week 4 and then start to introduce bursts of trot (this is all out hacking) for another 4 weeks. After that she should be ok to reintroduce schooling, canter etc gradually. But bottom line is walk, walk, walk as much as poss.
This is fine on paper but I've also managed to injure myself in the meantime, still on crutches and will be having an op on my knee myself at some point. I can get on to do walk work but not much more. More worryingly it is also getting dark and I work full time so fitting in 1hr hacking daily will be a struggle!
Anyone any experiences of doing return to work hacking in winter in the dark?! Our yard is on a restricted byway so have approx 1 mile of traffic free track I can use (2 miles if I cross a road) but she's not great in the dark.
It's going to be a long winter