lisa_dundee
Well-Known Member
This is a bit of a long story but please any advice would be much appreciated. I sold My horse of a lifetime 5 years ago who I had from being a foal and showed at county level qualifying for the RIHS he was 6 when I sold him. Over the past 5 years I have always kept in touch with his new owner and he was competing med / advanced dressage. However when asking for the more demanding movements such as canter pirouettes he struggled and became unsound in his offside hind.
He was taken to Nantwich Vets & through investigation was found to have a small tear in his suspensory ligament... In April 2014 he had PRP treatment to fill the tear which was successful (scans show this).
A 6 month recovery plan began with scans at various intervals, all was successful until canter work began which caused the leg to swell and be painful so work stopped and a 2nd opinion was sought from vet Tom Morton to rescan in November 2014.
He advised leg was 80% operational & although some of the new tissue had only weakly bonded he felt that the pain & lameness was due to scar tissue and nerve endings attached to the ligament and recommended follow on operation De- Nerving which was carried out on both hind legs January 2015 by Nantwich vets.
The recovery programme commenced again until canter work 5 week ago and was lame working on soft ménage surface and heat in the hock joint.
At this point I was contacted and asked if the horse could be gifted back to me as a hack and maybe in the future get him back in the show ring or possibly jumping again.
I have my own land and stables and I wouldn't hesitate to have this horse back even if he had 3 legs and he will never part company with me until the day he dies, however I want to try and do the absolute best I can by him.
It has been recommended he has a gamma radiation scan on his back legs £1500 to see if there is a problem with the sacroiliac joint or try steroid injections in to his hocks and sacroiliac joint. His owner has decided against this and he is coming home to me this coming Sunday.
I have ordered him a glucosamine joint supplement and I have been reading about ice vibe boots and magnetic boots.
I personally would not have had him de-nerved and would like anyone's experience in relationship to the same issues.
I would love to get this horse back in a county ring, however if he is a light hack / field ornament for the rest of his days then that's fine too.
He was taken to Nantwich Vets & through investigation was found to have a small tear in his suspensory ligament... In April 2014 he had PRP treatment to fill the tear which was successful (scans show this).
A 6 month recovery plan began with scans at various intervals, all was successful until canter work began which caused the leg to swell and be painful so work stopped and a 2nd opinion was sought from vet Tom Morton to rescan in November 2014.
He advised leg was 80% operational & although some of the new tissue had only weakly bonded he felt that the pain & lameness was due to scar tissue and nerve endings attached to the ligament and recommended follow on operation De- Nerving which was carried out on both hind legs January 2015 by Nantwich vets.
The recovery programme commenced again until canter work 5 week ago and was lame working on soft ménage surface and heat in the hock joint.
At this point I was contacted and asked if the horse could be gifted back to me as a hack and maybe in the future get him back in the show ring or possibly jumping again.
I have my own land and stables and I wouldn't hesitate to have this horse back even if he had 3 legs and he will never part company with me until the day he dies, however I want to try and do the absolute best I can by him.
It has been recommended he has a gamma radiation scan on his back legs £1500 to see if there is a problem with the sacroiliac joint or try steroid injections in to his hocks and sacroiliac joint. His owner has decided against this and he is coming home to me this coming Sunday.
I have ordered him a glucosamine joint supplement and I have been reading about ice vibe boots and magnetic boots.
I personally would not have had him de-nerved and would like anyone's experience in relationship to the same issues.
I would love to get this horse back in a county ring, however if he is a light hack / field ornament for the rest of his days then that's fine too.