Thoughts? (for a friend)

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Ok, nice dressage pony, welsh section B. Extravagant mover. In August it came up very slightly lame and was scanned, minor lesion in right fore suspensory ligament. Had x3 shockwave therapy, walking, etc and came back to work totally sound.
Yesterday he was slightly lame again on the same leg and there was some heat. Vet came and scanned, fully expecting a resprain of the suspensory, but no - check ligament. Same thing, minor lesion.

Now, I'm wondering whether there must be something going on to predispose this pony to doing a check and suspensory on the same front leg, but am not sure what that could be. Vet is puzzled, but is putting it down to bad luck. Still - any ideas welcome!

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What bad luck
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Is this Bobby? He always looked to place both front legs squarely but he did hammer himself round from time to time!
 
Its Ebony - black pony. He's always been laterally stiff and inclined to counter bend to the right, so perhaps he's been putting extra pressure on that leg over time. its just so odd to have two ligment injuries on one leg, especially on a pony who really doesn't do much other than hack out and easy dressage schooling/low jumping.
 
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Its Ebony - black pony. He's always been laterally stiff and inclined to counter bend to the right, so perhaps he's been putting extra pressure on that leg over time. its just so odd to have two ligment injuries on one leg, especially on a pony who really doesn't do much other than hack out and easy dressage schooling/low jumping.

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Oh what a shame
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Sounds like it is a weakness then, especially on a small hardy pony!!
 
Is his pelvis level? If there is a bit of a problem/weakness in the opposite hind leg he might be fractionally loading the foreleg. Has the vet and a physio had a good look behind?

Injuries in the front leg tendon and ligaments are often associated with a weakness behind. With a lot of horses you can often predict, if a leg is going to 'go', which one it will be.
 
foot balance? i had one blacksmith who over time did not shoe level on one front foot the other was fine but the blacksmith was very left handed, which caused stress on one leg and a lot of low level lameness
 
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