Strained Muscle After Lungeing?

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Hi All
My ex-racehorse turn 3yrs on 30th April and we (my friend and I) have just started lungeing him to bring him back into some resemblance of work as he's starting to get a bit of a handful. More accurately, she's started lungeing him as she's good at it and likes it whereas i'm pants at it and hate it!! :D He has an extraordinarily weak right rein - fine, not a problem.

However, it was her turn for evening yards tonight and she text me to say he's lame in the left shoulder, not the right :confused:

I'm just putting it down to the fact he's not done a single thing since August last year, he was on the lunge for 15-20mins doing no more than walk and trot and then went to hang out in a field with not a scrap of grass just standing about - do you think he's just seized up? If so, would you keep him in tommorrow or throw him out as normal? :rolleyes:

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Personally, I wouldn't lunge an unfit horse. Lunging puts all sorts of strains on a horse, and although 20 mins doesn't sound like a long time, it is an intensive activity. You would be better off starting with ridden walking exercise.
 
I'd get the vet, as otherwise you are just guessing what it is. My mare went very lame on a foreleg for no apparent reason 2 weeks ago. I had the vet out the following morning. She couldn't find anything despite hoof pincers, flexion tests and a nerve block, so said she thought it might be a pulled shoulder. The mare was dragging a toe. She advised 2 weeks yard rest and bute. The mare now seems to be sound. (But has mud fever from standing in the muddy gateway, agh!)
 
If you are that worried then get the vet in.

However, from your original question, if you think it's something minor then turn out and let him walk it off.

Any swelling, heat etc should be monitered and dealt with.

If that's him in the pics, he's lovely..

Hope this helps..
 
Copper - yes that it is him! He looks really nice in the pictures but in reality looks like a pit pony that's 16.2hh!

Up at the stables yesterday and I'll be reading him a bedtime story called The Boy Who Cried Wolf - not one teenie tiny sign of a limp/hobble/shuffle/one poxy ounce of discomfort :rolleyes:

So he had an ear bending and told to man up for making me worry all flaming day that i'd broken him!! Bad little horse! :D
 
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