Successful stem cell treatment on tendons?

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I'm doing equine stem cell therapy for an extended project qualification at college and need first hand information about the procedure and if it was successful for your horse?

I tried Phoebe Buckley and Ruth Edge but think they might be a little busy at the moment with the eventing season starting!

Any info at all would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
 
hi, is this not when the vet injects cells from elsewhere in the horse into the affected tendon/area to aid the healing process? If so we have had this done on one of our polo ponies a year ago and seems to have worked fairly well, it was on his right fore i think...what sort of info do u need??
 
Yes it is, could you maybe tell me a bit about your horse and how it obtained the injury (I'm assuming on a tendon instead of a ligament?) and maybe how he is doing now.. whether he returned to full work and is now completely sound?

Thanks for you help :-)
 
13.1 NF mare, 9 years old. Not sure how injury acquired, possibly twanged at a Gymkana late August 09, (the only time she ever obviously did something to herself). Injury manifested itself the following March when she broke down within sight of the finish at an endurance event, she had had a very busy winter in the meantime, including racing and the fitness training associated with it. It subsequently transpired BOTH SDFT were damaged at the scan. Stem cell therapy decided on and agreed to by NFU insurers. Cells harvested around 20 May last year then she went off to stud (our Plan B), then grown on in a lab somewhere, they were implanted I think 20 days later (we got the pregnancy scan confirmed at the same time the cells were implanted.

It seems to have been successful, certainly the black holes (lesions?) had disappeared/were noticeably smaller at the following scan. She has received no further treatment since the stem cell, just scans to see how things were getting on. I need to arrange another scan asap before 12 months insurance period is over to see where we are at with her. Because of Plan B, there is no rush to bring her back into proper work, although we did do some very gentle hacking out between September and December weather permitting which she really enjoyed. Mare is sound. She is now busy just being a brood mare though. However, one leg is larger than the other, whether that will ever fully return to normal or not I don't know. The main thing is though that she has come sound, which of course was a big worry for a long time that she might not.

She has been on a "normal" routine since May. Part stabled, part turned out as per what her field mate has been doing. She was on box rest for 2 months, she only cooperated with this if we turned her out in the field to graze whilst her stable was mucked out.
 
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