dressage__diva
Well-Known Member
I have also put this post in the Competition section, but I am hoping to get as many experiences as possible as I am in a bit of panic! I apologise if this is a little long winded.
I bought a beautiul 3 year old dressage mare before Christmas, but due to work committment (I was not even supposed to be looking until after Christmas) I had her at an instructors for a few weeks through the horrendous weather. However, thankfully they have a walker so she was lunged and put on the walker through thye worst of it. Eventually they could ride her (she had been backed in the summer and ridden by the person I bought her from).
She as ridden for 2 weeks by the instructor and myself and finally I could pick her up and have her at home! She loaded really well, travelled very well but just lost her footing slightly when we hit the pot holes at home. She had not sweated up, unloaded quietly and settled straight into her stable.
The following morning she had two huge knees which were warm and sore to touch. The swelling was very much a fluid swelling which was located to the front and to the side of the knee. It was also travelling down th cannon bone in what looked like a pocket.
I cold hosed, walked and trotted her out... sound.
As this was a new horse, I phoned the vet as I thought bute would be a prerequisite at this point. The vet came out, checked heart rate (she was 5 stage vetted and xrayed when I bought her... I was present at the vetting) and then saw her walked and trotted out. Again, completely sound.
The vet suggested that perhaps this could be down to a trauma... perhaps she knocked herself either in the horsebox or in the stable over night. But I can't help thinking this would not cause so muh swelling and what are the chances she hit both knees? The knees were 100% the day I picked her up and she had not been worked or out of her stable as they had ben unsure of my arrival time.
The left knee is predominantly swollen on the outside and the right knee has swelling on both the inside an the outside.
The other thing the vet suggested (but thought swelling over too big an expanse) was a check ligament strain... I have looked these up as I think it is the one ligament I know nothing about (typical) but again, it would have to have happened in her stable or in the horsebox. Had she gone down on the knees, then yes perhaps I could go more for this suggestion, but she has travelled before and it is not as if she is a weak horse who has been on box rest etc. Her muscles and ligaments have been worked regularly.
There is also some swelling further up the leg which I found with the vet...
Any suggestions, experiences etc etc?
When I had her vetted we had to delay it slightly as she fell on her elbow after I bought her and came up with a big haematoma (sp?) under her chest. This was still visilble when she was vetted and the vet assured me that was all it was. So could it be that her body reacts quite strongly to bumps and bruises?
Thanks for reading.
I bought a beautiul 3 year old dressage mare before Christmas, but due to work committment (I was not even supposed to be looking until after Christmas) I had her at an instructors for a few weeks through the horrendous weather. However, thankfully they have a walker so she was lunged and put on the walker through thye worst of it. Eventually they could ride her (she had been backed in the summer and ridden by the person I bought her from).
She as ridden for 2 weeks by the instructor and myself and finally I could pick her up and have her at home! She loaded really well, travelled very well but just lost her footing slightly when we hit the pot holes at home. She had not sweated up, unloaded quietly and settled straight into her stable.
The following morning she had two huge knees which were warm and sore to touch. The swelling was very much a fluid swelling which was located to the front and to the side of the knee. It was also travelling down th cannon bone in what looked like a pocket.
I cold hosed, walked and trotted her out... sound.
As this was a new horse, I phoned the vet as I thought bute would be a prerequisite at this point. The vet came out, checked heart rate (she was 5 stage vetted and xrayed when I bought her... I was present at the vetting) and then saw her walked and trotted out. Again, completely sound.
The vet suggested that perhaps this could be down to a trauma... perhaps she knocked herself either in the horsebox or in the stable over night. But I can't help thinking this would not cause so muh swelling and what are the chances she hit both knees? The knees were 100% the day I picked her up and she had not been worked or out of her stable as they had ben unsure of my arrival time.
The left knee is predominantly swollen on the outside and the right knee has swelling on both the inside an the outside.
The other thing the vet suggested (but thought swelling over too big an expanse) was a check ligament strain... I have looked these up as I think it is the one ligament I know nothing about (typical) but again, it would have to have happened in her stable or in the horsebox. Had she gone down on the knees, then yes perhaps I could go more for this suggestion, but she has travelled before and it is not as if she is a weak horse who has been on box rest etc. Her muscles and ligaments have been worked regularly.
There is also some swelling further up the leg which I found with the vet...
Any suggestions, experiences etc etc?
When I had her vetted we had to delay it slightly as she fell on her elbow after I bought her and came up with a big haematoma (sp?) under her chest. This was still visilble when she was vetted and the vet assured me that was all it was. So could it be that her body reacts quite strongly to bumps and bruises?
Thanks for reading.