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ok guys i have a 16.2hh Irish Thoroughbred gelding his legs are quite chunky for a tb. he is 9 years old and has never had a injury/problem before.

he is a competition horse and is competing BSJA at 1.20 Foxhunter at the moment,

about 3 weeks ago he was competing at Field House Equestrian Centre in the 1.15 national amateur qualifiers, he come 2nd and qualified but noticed as was receiving the rosette he as holding his front right leg up, as we walked him out the ring we noticed he was lame, he hasn't hit a jump or landed awkwardly as we are aware of, so we thought give him some beaut for a week and a nice rest and see how he goes, couple days later he couldn't walk, i rushed down to the yard to find out that it was his other leg (left) that was swollen like a balloon and was unable to walk on it, got vet out right away, turned out to be an absis, anyways moving on he has fully recovered from the absis but is now still lame on his front right leg, we have had a back person out, his back is fine, a muscle person out his muscles are all fine, four vets out and none seem to be able to find anything wrong, we can pull his leg forwards backwards sidewards squeeze his tendons really be very rough with his leg and shoulder and isn't bothered one bit but yet trot him in a straight line and is lame and turn him in a sharp circle and is crippled.

the vet has suggested to keep him in for a week box rest and see if that does anything if not his is going to be nerve blocked and scanned!.

this is a very strange case as no signs at all as to why he is lame,

maybe someone on here could shed some light and maybe help as me and the vets are a bit lost at this moment and unable to see what is wrong,
also the farrier has been had new shoes on, ones to lift his heels high of the ground with the shoe over hanging at the back he has also had a dig and squeeze at his hoof and all healthy so no signs of an absis being there,

strange i no! its the mystery horse, let me know what you think

thanks
 
Sometimes you can get a good idea of where/what the problem is just by the symptoms displayed by the horse but there are a lot of issues that really can't be diagnosed without further investigation. TBH if he's been significantly lame for over two weeks already I'd be wanting it looked into further as soon as possible. I hope it's nothing too serious and he makes a full recovery!
 
Yes we was just thinking if it was a torn muscle maybe nd it's not healing bein. Out in the field so was going to try box rest he isn't showing any symptoms of pain anywhere in the leg or shoulder just stands there happily with ears forward he isnt terribly lame he is sound in walk and canter its just trot he is limping but not really bad only slightly lame.
 
We have had a couple of horses like this and they all had stress fractures in their cannon bones.

95% sound in walk, canter and gallop but 10% sound in the trot. No heat, no swelling, no pain upon palpation, squeezing, knocking etc. Only way to discover for sure for stress fractures is x-raying.

6-8 weeks box rest. Depending on how big a fracture as to whether you bandage it or not. Then gradually back into work. 12-15 weeks of work and back into competing.
 
As it was after competing, I would have said maybe pulled a tendon, other than that what EKW said, I'd defo investigate further, can't believe you've had so many vets/professionals look at it and nobody has suggested scans/xrays !!??
 
Seems they have noisy girl. Nerve blocks are done to decide where best to x ray or scan if there is no obvious cause of lameness.
Not a mystery or strange though- lamenesses with no outward signs are really very common. Box rest and re-exam in a few days then get cracking on the work-up
 
Until you have a lameness workup done you won't know. Of have one done immediately, personally including x rays of the feet.
 
I'd always bandage the opposite limb to the one that is injured as the horse will be transferring more weight onto this limb which can cause swelling and possibly lameness. I'd also suspect that maybe he has the onset of coffin joint disease and the extra weight on the good leg (to compensate for the bad leg) has caused the arthritis to flare up.

I'd get xrays done just to get a diagnosis if nothing else, if it turns out to be that you can always bute/get steroid injections.
 
glenruby said:
Seems they have noisy girl. Nerve blocks are done to decide where best to x ray or scan if there is no obvious cause of lameness.
Not a mystery or strange though- lamenesses with no outward signs are really very common. Box rest and re-exam in a few days then get cracking on the work-up
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Didn't see the nerve block bit at the end of the sentence duh ! silly me
 
ThAnks for all your help guys another vet has been out as she seems to think it's in the foot so he is off to the equine unit for nerve blocks and scans so hopefully we can get to the bottom off this! Thanks ever so much
 
Took tests turns out it was due to bad shoeing :-( his heels where crushed which made his peedle bone sit level instead of a 45 degree angle when we nerve blocked the one leg he went lame in the other so both feet where bad :-( got remedial farrier sorting him out now but gona sue farrier!
 
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