Suspensories that scan as OK?

[Alibear]

Just wondering does anyone know of a horse that had it's hind suspensories scanned and they scanned as fine/ok ?
I don't which I guess is because if you have a reason to scan them it's highly likely to show a problem. But that leaves me wondering if all horses would have some degree of abnormality if they had their suspensories scanned.

 

[Booboos]

Rusky's suspensories were scanned 18 months ago. He had been having problems and we could not pin-point the source (tried nerve blocks and scintigraphy). His suspensories showed no evidence of a problem, we eventually found out that the problem was back related due to his saddle. At the time the vet talked about his suspensories being within normal parametres and same size to each other - does that help?

 

[Alibear]

Yes that helps a lot BooBoos thanks.

Hope you managed to sort out your boys back problems.

 

[pennyh]

i had a horse that had a 'mystery' slight unlevelness a few years ago , he was scanned , the vet ruled out suspensory & said they looked very good for a horse of his age & background (had previously evented)

 

[stilltrying]

According to my vet, any horse that has done any sort of work will have suspensory changes if scanned. (brief snippet of the longest story ever...... mine had a bonescan in 2008, vet was convinced it was sacroiliac problem but bonescan came back squeaky clean, suspenspories were then scanned and showed changes, one was within the normal range the other slightly over - my vet considered this to be perfectly normal).

 

[H's mum]

My vet told me that H has slack suspensories (god knows what that is technically! LOL!) but he told me it was perfectly normal in a horse of her age...
Hope everything's ok Ali?
Kate x

 

[LEC]

My horse - it was hock. They had to scan/block suspensories just to be sure it was purely hock pain.

 

[lisa_dundee]

One of our mares (really long story) has a tear through her main suspensory ligament in one back leg and major damage to the suspensory ligament in the other back leg, plus major damage to the cartilage in one stifle joint and damage to the pelvis area including a rotated pelvis... poor girl