SDFT, my lovely mare is broken again

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Came in this mornng and had an egg size wind gall on her n/s hind, same leg she had her annular ligament cut last year due to a hole in SDFT. Iced immediately but have bad feeling about this one. My 2 equine vets are off until Tuesday and have a new vet on call. Didnt know whether to turn out or box. I KNOW this will be at least 12/18 months off which I dont mind at all, but she gets depressed. Will hopefullly scan this week to see what damage there is.

Hope Jet_set, Half_Step, Silmarillion and co can give me some hope.
 
Sorry can't give you any advice cos I'm useless but am sending lots of good luck and heeling vibes for Cass
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I'm so sorry, you must be very worried.
I'd keep in and wait until Tuesday for your preferred vet, until then I'd continue cold hosing and icing. At least if she stays in until the vet has assessed then she can't do further damage.
Fingers crossed it's not serious.
 
Oh no, I really hope it is not what you think. Anyway, my advice is: keep in, keep it cold/iced, and bandaged - just do everything to reduce the inflammation as quickly as possible.

Fingers crossed for you.

xx
 
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Oh Bugger, sorry to hear this H.
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Fingers crossed for encouraging news when you can get the Vet up.
 
Oh god
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Hosing, icing, bandaging and box rest for the moment IMO. Don't take the advice of a different vet if you don't want to... in the end, box rest until your own vet can come out will likely do no harm even if it does no good. Don't forget the two week rule - the first two are crucial in healing and need constant cold therapy.
My fingers are crossed for you until you can get your vet to scan.
 
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Oh no, I really hope it is not what you think. Anyway, my advice is: keep in, keep it cold/iced, and bandaged - just do everything to reduce the inflammation as quickly as possible.

Fingers crossed for you.

xx

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What halfstep said.

I know how you are feeling, my horse split his DDFT and it was 50/50. He is fine now, so do not give up hope, keep fingers crossed.
 
Oh honey, I can't believe it
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As Halfstep has said, keep her in just in case, keep it cold and bandage it to help get the swelling down. They may not be able to scan it if there is a lot of swelling, so better to try and get it scanned as soon as possible if for nothing more than your own piece of mind.

Does anyone have an Equissage you could borrow? They are great for helping remove swelling and also aid the healing process too...

After all, it could be nothing more than a bump... let's keep everything crossed for this outcome!
 
A friend of mines mare did her DFT very badly. It was the size of half a rugby ball. The tendon was so bad they could not operate.She also had a bad annular ligament injury on the same leg.

She researched what she could give her and came up with a combination of heomopathic pills. She also went and bought an infra red body massager from ebay (this is great and not only can she use it on the leg but the mare loves a masssage).

The mare had a year off and had a foal and is now back doing endurance.

All the drugs (pills) she used were totally natural.
 
Join the club! My mare did her annular ligament (not operated on though) and SDFT 18 months ago, had a year off, been back in work since November. Was doing brilliantly, but I felt was a bit "off" last week (I think I can pin point what she did to bring it on), and her leg felt really tight around the annular ligment, so I rang my vet and we decided to bute and box rest her completely for a week. Luckily for me as long as she has ad lib food!, my mare is happy on box rest and *touch wood* I chucked her on the lunge (only place you can see the issue) and she is back to normal, so have turned her out for a couple of days and will chat to my vet tomorrow as to what he thinks I should do next.

He told me right at the beginning of her injury that the annular ligament will most likely restrict every now and again and that box rest was the only solution and it should resolve(apart from the operation which we haven't gone for at the moment). Probably doesn't apply though if your horse has had the ligament cut, I don't know.

At the moment it seems he is right, but hoping that no damage has been done to the SDFT - certainly my mare looks sound again.

Best of luck Llwyncwn, hope you horse makes a quick recovery and its just a blip, not a major incident.
 
Good luck, I have no experience of tendon injuries with my current horse... but I do so admire you for being so relaxed and optimistic about a year or longer off......poor girls, both of you..

I do wish you the very best of luck..sending healing vibes..

And yes I am sure keeping her in will have been the best thing to do.
 
So sorry to hear about your mare. What a rotten shame. I would box personally as turning out could make it worse (if thats possible) before the vet has seen it. And I would ice, ice, ice to reduce what damage there is in the first 72 hours as its proven research that icing/cold hosing really does help prevent massive damage if done as soon as the injury is spotted up to 72 hours - this is the time frame deemed most sucessful. Good luck, and sorry xxxx
 
Thank you all so much for your advice and suggestions. I can now give an update, which doesnt look too good at this stage.

Vet came this afto's and we did a work up in the school, trot on both reins, 3/10ths lame on her original SDFT and 4/10ths lame on her good one! She then did flexion tests and both were positive which 'suggest' spavin in both hocks. She felt her o/s hock and cant be sure, but thought she could feel changes to the top part of the hock (Tarsal somethingoranother) which would be very bad news. The annular ligament on her good leg is also swollen.

She is booked into clinic at 9am tomorrow morning for the day, possibly two for scans on both tendons and the other annular ligament, nerve blocks to the fetlocks and hock x-rays.

After her DDFT and ligament cut last year, she was competition fit by March. My friend took her to a local dressage competition and Cass did the best test she has ever done and probably the last. Three weeks ago, I decided that I can get over this paranoia, take off her bubble wrap and face the music so we went for a lovely beach ride. I have never known her so tired. Havnt done any school work recently, just hacking, and for the last two weeks she has been hollowing at times and labouring down hill. Perhaps my inner self was right to be worried? I have never had such a wonderful oneness with any other living being as I have with Cass and each morning my heart skips a beat when I see her face and she wickers to me, the one soul who I trust unconditionally.
 
Three joints in the hock - from the top, crurotarsal, intertarsal, tarso-metatarsal.
That sounds like a lot of problems
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Fingers crossed there are enough solutions available... and fingers crossed for tomorrow.
 
So sorry that the news isn't better. I know exactly how you feel, as I am on a roller coaster with my mare who also has signs of DJD and I know that our riding time together is realistically limited and could be ended at any time.

Good luck at the vets, hope things aren't as bad as you think they are.
 
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