Sacroiliac problems.... are there any sucess stories?

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sunnylynn

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My mare was hit by a car June and has been bucking in canter since the accident. She's currently at the Royal Veterinary College undergoing treatment.

The scintigraphy showed two very small hotspots...behind the saddle area and sacroiliac. She was also scoped for ulcers while she was there and is clear!. They xrayed the area behind the saddle yesterday and it showed nothing so today they are nerve blocking the sacroiliac joint to see whether or not she will still buck.

From what I have been reading so far, there are not many sucess stories and the prognosis is not good for this type of injury.....
 
Yes there is :) My mare somehow injured her sacroiliac joint when she was 5 yrs old and only 3 months after I'd bought her. They nerve blocked the joint and she stopped bucking, the vets said it was amazing what a difference it was. They concluded that she had torn the ligament at the joint as one side of her bum had dropped alot. A long story short after a year and a half she was back eventing. She is 14yrs old now and we have never had any trouble with the sacroiliac joint again. She has evented up to 1 star level quite happily. :)


My advice is take the recovery slowly as we rushed back too soon and so went back a step before improving again. Good luck, there is light at the end of the tunnel!
 
It may depend on severity but my WB was diagnosed at the AHT and was given a prognosis of "guarded" 7 years ago and has done all sorts since dressage up to Ele, sponsored rides, small HT, showing and lots of hacking. It depends what the severity is and what you want to do with the horse really - I wanted to do more dressage but had to adjust my plans but I think the initial injury happened before I got him and so treatment perhaps was a bit late for a total recovery.

I went to a talk recently by Ed Lyall a well-renowned local vet and who was on the Olympic veterinary team he thinks the prognosis is good and fully resolvable with the right treatment.
 
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