Tendon Injury

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Anyone had experience of the above?

My gorgeous TBxID went in for surgery for what we thought was to remove a bone chip from his hock but once opened up the surgeon discovered lots of calcification to the tarsus and pretty hefty lesions to SDFT.
Has more or less written him off and said every step he takes is further damaging the tendon, although out it slightly more sympathetically and gave a 'guarded prognosis' of unlikey to ever return to soundness and work.....

Absolutely gutting to hear as he only ever showed as 1/10 lame on a circle in the arena.

So I took him to the vets for what I assumed to be a minor niggling intermittent lameness investigation has turned out to be a pretty poopy outcome!

Vets have offered no further post op advice than 3 weeks box rest, three weeks hand walking and then free paddock rest........ Feeling at a loss! :-(
 
Gosh, that's upsetting. No advice really. My horse is currently off with two tears to the DDFT. Six months field rest with guarded prognosis of return to work - hacking to be an achievable aim.

How old is your horse? It doesn't sound good with the vet saying unlikely to ever return fully sound :(
 
My pony managed to do both forelegs tendon in one go. Prognosis was poor. He went onto compete at local level (small as I'm a wuss) HT, SJ and went colt hunting.

I think vets tend to err on the side of caution and give the worst case scenario at times. Fingers crossed your boy comes sound for you.
 
I think you need to push the vets for a more in depth conversation about how to manage your horse long term, especially as they know the site of the damage etc.

There are things you can do for tendon lesions (I'm specifically thinking PRP or stem) but in your case with calcification also the vet might just be saving your money.

Get back onto the vets and insist they talk you through options and longer term reality
 
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