Sacro Illiac Problems (follow on from earlier post)

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Does anyone know if continued work prior to diagnosis of sacro illiac muscle, joint or tendon injury affects the outcome?
My friend's mare has had low grade non-specific lameness for a few months. Prior to that, the only indication that anything was wrong was her bucking going into canter. She had the chiropractor to see her, had her saddle re-done etc and continued to hack her as she seemed fine to hack. At one point it was thought that it was behavioural as she was sound to trot up, for flexion tests etc. However, after putting her on bute for a trial period, the problems evaporated. They took her off the bute and it all started again. They've now pinpointed it, after months of vets, chiro's etc and she's off for a gamma scintography. My friend is really worried that the time between the start of the problems and now is going to affect her recovery. Does anyone have any experience of this that they could share?
Needless to say, she is more than happy to put in whatever is required in terms of the horse's recovery, but I think she really needs a light at the end of the tunnel right now...
 
I'm not really the best to comment as my horse has other problems too & so I don't know his recovery ability.

However, I was jumping him immediately prior to his diagnosis and the vets & chiro did not seem to think that this had made it any worse. With a course of treatment & Pessoa work my chiro was very confident that he could work again at the same level or more.

Unfortunately for me he is still lame though with fetlock problems so have been unable to put this theory into practice.
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Good luck though & fingers crossed.
 
My hor5se experienced similar things and it took a year to diagnose by a bone scan. The vets at this stage said 3 months box rest and wrote the horse off. At this time a sports therapist came in to the yard and noticed my horse as he was a chronic box walker. She asked what was wrong i.e. why in in the summer and someone said. She said she had a good response to sacro-iliac problems so my horse went to her for 10 days and never looked back. That was over 9 years ago now and he went back oout SJ, XC, hunting etc. In his new home he is doing RC SJ teams and hunting with no probs. Good luck
 
Gosh I had exactly the same experience as you. Was told to turn away for 3 months, then would prob only hack. Found a brill physio who has done wonders, she now does dressage, XC, SJ etc etc. Whereabouts are you?
 
is the horse a warmblood. ifso have you thought about epsm had similar prob with my gelding spent about 18 months back and forth to vet then tried a high oil diet sounds strange i know but horse sound.
 
I bought my ex racer and didnt get him vetted (BIG MISTAKE) but ill learn from it!! He has a sacrioliac subluxation (hes got a bump on one side), had physio out and its worst case hes seen but says his back and everythin is fine (probs because of his good confirmation). Physio said hes got a pain in the neck on diagonal side to bump and this is caused by overcompensating, hes now working well, better the more work he does, hopefully ill be at a prelim by next summer with him.

I love my bumpy horse, bet not many can say the learnt to ride on a 16.3hh ex racer!!

Love ya Checky
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I always thought the root of my mares problems were with her back, however my vet insisted on treating her for bone spavins in both hocks, despite passing flexion tests etc.
Eventually my physio agreed with me that she thought the problem was with her back and persuaded my vet to reconsider. We then did the bute exercise, (buting her up to see if she'd then come sound, which she did), then they bone scanned her and discovered hot spots around the sacroilliac joints which they treated with steriod injections. After 7 days box rest I was told to start working again, avoiding too much work on small circles but other than that it would be best to keep her in regular work. I brought her back slowly and followed a strict fittening routine, and she coped with x/c and fun rides all summer without any problems. I don't believe that the delayed diagnosis caused any further problems to my mare, although it did stress me out not knowing what the problem was!
 
Wow - thank you so much everyone. I've mailed my friend and she is so much more positive now.
I hope everything carries on going well for you all (especially you Dixie - hope the lameness clears up asap).
Madam_Max - would rather not say where I am as it is a small community, word travels and she's had quite a lot of success in the show ring in the past, so would not like to jeopardise her. However, if you could let me know who your physio is, I would be very grateful.
 
hi
i would also like the name of this physio as my mare just diagnosed with this problem after having a bone scan,she also had electric shock therapy has anyone else had this treatment on their horse and how did it respond to it
 
My boy has had a similar diagnosis a couple of weeks ago, he's already been diagnosed with kissing spines and went for scans, they picked up hot spots in sacroiliac and hocks. Had steroid injections in both areas and he's started coming back into work this week. We're off to a recommended physio this afternoon so I'm keeping my fingers tightly crossed for a positive long-term outcome.
 
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