Thoroughpin with lameness

[cblover]

Hi all, my lovely money and sanity draining Clydesdale Scrappy has been diagnosed with having a thoroughpin. I’ve been reading up and it seems that most are painfree with no lameness.

Scrappy is definitely lame and has been prescribed bute twice a day for 5 days. If she’s not sound in two weeks she’ll be xrayed just to ensure nothing else is going on.

Anyone else had lameness with a thoroughpin?

 

[cblover]

Anyone? I’m worried about the lameness now after reading that most people haven’t had any lameness with it. Of course I’ll ring my vet tomorrow with any concerns but here is always a good place to source info too. Real people, real experiences.

 

[Red-1]

I had one who threw out a thoroughpin, but did not reply earlier as she was not lame. I used a Pressage boot on it as well as cold hosing and it went down. She competed eventing after that and it did not come back. It was not even visible and it had been quite large.

I would not use a boot with lameness though, as if it is hot and inflamed it may aggravate it further.

I would rest, cold hose, 20m 3X a day, but with lameness I would also have the vet back out.

I believe they can drain, steroid jab and then boot, but am not sure of the success/advantages as ours simply went down with the boot and reducing work to straight line walking.

 

[cblover]

He saw her today and she was of course lame. He didn’t seem too worried about the lameness. He just said because she is a heavy horse it would be good to X-ray her if she’s not sound in 2 weeks.

He said she didn’t need box rest but did need restricted movement. The best and calmest place to put her is in my small field. 1 acre approximately.

I’m bringing her out for her bucket feed with bute in so she doesn’t feel the need to guard her companion off it. Just after all I’ve read today, it is concerning.

 

[be positive]

I had one that had a thoroughpin, he was not obviously lame but was not right the vet said to give him some easy time then build up his strength with plenty of straight line work, he was a 4.5 year old Dales that had run with a herd of mares until being taken off and gelded at 3.5 so I suspect too much time on his hindlegs had caused a weakness, I gave him the winter hacking until he was 5 then started schooling and he was fine being sold on as a good all rounder.
I would think that most thoroughpins have some element of lameness behind them even if it is like many hind lamenesses which often go unnoticed especially if bilateral, it is a swelling/ strain to the tendon sheath so although it does not tend to cause lameness in a big heavy horse it may cause more discomfort due to the weight than it might in something less heavy, not very scientific but it makes sense to me!

I would have though scanning more appropriate than xrays for a soft tissue injury but both may give a fuller picture.

 

[meleeka]

Mine wasn’t lame at all. I hope you get to the bottom of it and it’s something easily fixed .

 

[AandK]

Yes, mine has a puffy hock, thoroughpin type swellings. We xrayed and he has a bone chip in the joint. As he is only 6 he's having an arthroscopy on 17th to sort it out. ETA he is 1/10 lame, slightly worse after flexion.

 

[cblover]

I think the swelling (egg sized) on my clyde is higher on the hock than these pics. She's still quite sore today and lame this morning and points her hoof outwards...it must be the most comfortable position for her but a bit odd to look at. Oh its never easy is it.