Wildfyre
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Hi all,
Does anyone have success stories for sacroiliac injury rehab? For horses to go on and have something of a productive life?
I have an 4yo OTT TB mare that I was given by the trainer - I don't know how or when the injury occurred, she arrived looking horrendous, mainly severely lacking topline (I was thinking OMG how can this have raced?)
We redid her feet as they looked like they were causing some HQ issues, had our muscle man treat her, and after a couple of weeks she was lunged a few times, ridden twice gently (while medicated in the hope we could loosen up a few stiff muscles) and has been turned out for 8 weeks since. She has put on weight, and does have a shine to her coat but her topline (although improved) is still fairly terrible.
She definitely has some SI area problems - reluctance to move forward, difficulty standing for farrier, large prominent hunters bump on both sides.
I had hoped with 8 weeks out, she'd be able to return to some gentle work and eventually build up the strength and much lacking topline, but now i'm not so sure it's not a more serious chronic problem
The horse doesn't really seem happy, does seem a bit miserable on the world
My vet will be around to do some other things in a week or so, and I'll ask her opinion, however I'm not sure that she can diagnose much more than we've already established without getting into scans etc.
I'm reluctant to throw a lot of money at a horse that has never been proven as a riding/performance horse, that is worth very little, on scans for something which is on the whole quite poorly understood where i'm not really sure that a good outcome can be achieved. I realise there are things like acupuncture which can still be tried, has anyone had success with that?
For a horse so young to be in this bad a shape which 8 months hasn't seem to helped, I feel a little as though I'm setting up a career of very difficult management *if* she can have a ridden career at all.
Has anyone successfully turned around this sort of injury? What did you do, how long did it take?
Does anyone have success stories for sacroiliac injury rehab? For horses to go on and have something of a productive life?
I have an 4yo OTT TB mare that I was given by the trainer - I don't know how or when the injury occurred, she arrived looking horrendous, mainly severely lacking topline (I was thinking OMG how can this have raced?)
We redid her feet as they looked like they were causing some HQ issues, had our muscle man treat her, and after a couple of weeks she was lunged a few times, ridden twice gently (while medicated in the hope we could loosen up a few stiff muscles) and has been turned out for 8 weeks since. She has put on weight, and does have a shine to her coat but her topline (although improved) is still fairly terrible.
She definitely has some SI area problems - reluctance to move forward, difficulty standing for farrier, large prominent hunters bump on both sides.
I had hoped with 8 weeks out, she'd be able to return to some gentle work and eventually build up the strength and much lacking topline, but now i'm not so sure it's not a more serious chronic problem
The horse doesn't really seem happy, does seem a bit miserable on the world
My vet will be around to do some other things in a week or so, and I'll ask her opinion, however I'm not sure that she can diagnose much more than we've already established without getting into scans etc.
I'm reluctant to throw a lot of money at a horse that has never been proven as a riding/performance horse, that is worth very little, on scans for something which is on the whole quite poorly understood where i'm not really sure that a good outcome can be achieved. I realise there are things like acupuncture which can still be tried, has anyone had success with that?
For a horse so young to be in this bad a shape which 8 months hasn't seem to helped, I feel a little as though I'm setting up a career of very difficult management *if* she can have a ridden career at all.
Has anyone successfully turned around this sort of injury? What did you do, how long did it take?