tendon support

[ILuvCowparsely]

My mare has had 12 weeks off with scans RVC and such and issues now we trying to get comfortable is navicular and Collateral ligament injury (mild)


New onions shoes wider than old shoes and not allowed to have road nails in fronts. (farrier and verts advice). Sunday she came in lame, vet call Tendon swollen and heat, been ice booting - box rest danilon etc. Now question is, the issue is more than likely there is less grip on her feet since shoes wider, not much running skid marks. Brushing boots protecting splint are not enough, so what tendon boots have you found that work. I used the plastic old ones in the past with the tendon ridge down them on the inside. Don't want this happening again.

TIA

 

[doodle]

Tendon boots don’t support the tendon. They protect them from being struck into from the back hoof.

 

[Orangehorse]

As my vet said to me, a bit of material round a 500 kg horse can't give support, it is for protection.

 

[ester]

Only products like the equestride/fast track will provide support, as essentially they are external armature.

 

[emilylou]

There is nothing that you can put on a horses leg that will adequetely support a tendon. As the navicular is a factor the best thing you can do is make her as comfortable as possible in her feet to stop her loading the tendon abnormally.

Deep bedding, soft ground, rubbing matting, ice/cooling agents on the tendon, bute/or similar for inflammation, and some farriers can put a gel padding solution between the shoe and the hoof which provides very comfortable support for navicular issues.

 

[ester]

Yes there is they're just ££

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

Nothing supports the tendon. You put something with so called tendon support inserts - a solid object - on and you will do more damage as the tendon can't move as it should. You can only protect the tendon from being bashed and clattered. You cant protect it from stretching and tearing no matter what.

 

[ester]

except the equestride/fast track (maybe others) products?

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Was thinking more along this line, which i used for my first mare with tendon issues. This was the 80's though https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-an...601854?hash=item289f2397fe:g:sloAAOSw6NNffdjF


This mare has to wear brushing boots due to her splint anyway, using leg ice, radiol muscle liniment, ice boots already and support bandages, the tendon sheath of my boy does get some support from his stretch and flex, but the tendon sheath is a different mater.

 

[Gloi]

Having tendon trouble myself nothing works that doesn't completely immobilise the area

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

stretch and flex help my boys tendon sheath, tried and tested. just have to wait and see what vet says tomorrow.

You would have thought in this day and age, that they make supports for humans, knee, ankle, wrist, elbow in the way of elastic sup[port but they cannot make one for a horse, for turning out in the field etc

 

[Auslander]

stretch and flex help my boys tendon sheath, tried and tested. just have to wait and see what vet says tomorrow.

You would have thought in this day and age, that they make supports for humans, knee, ankle, wrist, elbow in the way of elastic sup[port but they cannot make one for a horse, for turning out in the field etc

i:m guessing that's because horses tendons and ligaments still work the same way - in a direction whereby it is impossible to support them, unless you immobilise them (or buy the very expensive devices in Esters links)
You also risk creating another problem if you restrict movement in a joint that is designed to be highly movable, as this leads to excessive stress being placed on the next set of joints up (or down) which are not designed to have excessive stress placed upon them.

 

[ester]

They've got quite a nice load video with sports medicine type boots.
The biomechanics of horse tendons/ligaments are quite different to human tendons/ligaments with massively different forces applied. I don't think in any day and age you are going to be able to support horse joints with elastic

 

[EASTIE17]

This works, have one on a pony now http://www.equestride.com/ able to exercise him with it and monthly scans are showing good organised healing. Also had PRP and electroshock so it’s not just the boot but it’s the quality of gradual exercise load without risking reinjury that’s the key to trying to make a good recovery from a tendon injury