Tendon injury front leg - any thoughts please, so worried

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Horseface has hooned around field and now my lovely TB has one front leg the size of a cob leg from the knee down on the inside. Vet has prescribed course of AB's and bute and 5 days boxrest with cold hosing 3 times a day. Wants to then see her again. The swelling looks the same now as it did yesterday, when she did it. Vet said wants to maybe do ultrasound scan after swelling has gone down, as it gives better image then.
Any experiences please?
 
If it is a tendon, you're doing the best thing by cold hosing and box resting. The scan should show you what you're dealing with. Until then, all you can do is keep your fingers crossed. No point panicking before you have a diagnosis! Let us know how it goes!
 
Thanks for the thoughts, yes, you're right it's no use worrying. It's gone down a lot today, so looking better, still quite puffy though.
Bloody in season TB's - why are they just SO silly?.:rolleyes:
 
i'd bandage on an icepack as often as you can, for 10-15 mins max, too. easier to do on boxrest than cold hosing imho, and gets the leg colder, reduces inflammation.
until you have seen the scans, there's no way of telling how bad it is. fingers very firmly crossed for you.
 
Don't panic. My old TB came in with a similar looking leg, very swollen just on the inside. It turned out he had just knocked himself badly and, being a typical TB, the leg had blown up! Fingers crossed
 
As did my TB. Came in on two seperate days with fetlocks and legs the size of footballs. Went down after 2 days. The one in front was very worrying. Typical TB!!
 
I shouldn't worry too much, 6 months ago my cob pulled her tendon and we had an ultrasound (you should have one done you can really see exactly what's going on) And her leg was the same width as her knee most of the way down, before the ultrasound he warned me that it didn't look good and i of course had to know exactly what he thought there and then instead of waiting until we did the scan and he said it looks like her suspensory and id say 20% chance of coming sound again (preparing me for the worst), i was very upset but after the scan we saw it was the tendon and after 4 weeks box rest she can back to walking out 5 mins 3 times a day and building up. 6 months on I have my first show of the year in two weeks. We are having another ultra sound in a week or two and we will prob have another one in another 6 months time.

When we found out what she had done i went on the internet and was reading all sorts of horror stories, i really wouldn't worry too much if i was you. Also i know a horse who tore its suspensory ligament and was told 6 months box-rest and then turnout and then back to work (not by my vet.) and that was also fine and went back to jumping and did a little XC schooling before he was sold. If you do what your vet tells you then you will have the best chance of you horse getting better quickly. I hope shes Ok soon!

Oh yes and i hold hosed for the first week and then the vet said don't do anything, no bandaging or ice packs or hosing after this just Bute and rest. (i don't know why and didn't ask just did as he said and shes gotten better faster than the vet thought she would. He came out a good few times since shes done it because i wanted him to check she was Ok and i think that's a good thing to do just so you know how its going.
 
Thanks everyone for your thoughts and advice, the leg is still the same, puffy, but not like it was when she first did it, but still enough to keep her in, using gel packs that fit around a wine bottle at the mo and frozen peas, bute and AB's. Vet tomorrow. She's in season big style and living directly up to the chestnut TB mare reputation and so acting like a real div in the box, so might ask for a mild sedative too :(.
 
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Keeping everything crossed for her. Let us know. Sounds like a sedative might help if box rest is ongoing; I've got a chestnut mare who acts similiarly...........
 
Even my incredibly laid-back, wouldn't twitch if a bomb went off next to her kind of horse went loopy on box rest (five and a half months of it) and had to have Sedalin to be taken out of the stable at one point... It does get to even the quietest ones, after a while!
 
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