Walking funny

[LittleIndian23]

Hello again everyone! My horse seems to develop new things to scare me with every other week at the moment!
So he's on box rest at the moment, this is his 4th week out of 8. He had arthroscopic surgery on his knee where he has trauma arthritic and after nerve blocks and MRI scans and X-Rays it was found he was showing very early signs of navicular, which is causing him capsular foot pain and is the actual cause for his lameness when schooling.
Vet advised lightweight shoes with some sort of padding to cushion his feet.
He's been having 5 min walks twice a day, as advised by the vet to help keep his natural movement while on rest. He has had a few hissy fits where he's reared and once where he got very spooked by some school children and he started to passage around the yard for a few seconds.
2 days later I noticed he seemed to be walking a bit strange. The next day he was fine to start with then about a min in he changed. The only way I can describe it is he can't/won't walk his bad leg past his good leg. He'll step it to it but it's like he's lost the ability to extend it in front.
He lifts his knees and is weight baring on all 4 limbs. I am wondering if it could be muscular and if it could be his shoulder.
Anyone have any ideas?

I am waiting on a return call from his vet

Thanks

 

[Wagtail]

Sounds like shoulder to me. What does his vet think?

 

[LittleIndian23]

Vet is coming tomorrow morning but farrier thinks shoulder too. It does seem to have eased a bit so fingers crossed it's muscular

 

[sjp1]

I also would think shoulder. Shoulder doesn't necessarily mean the injury is in the shoulder, could be higher up the neck. I say this as mine has been 'slipping' a shoulder/limb - very difficult even when walking in hand to plot where it comes from. Chiro came out and there are several vertebrae along the side of the neck - from mid way down they were 'hard' causing the leg to not come forward but rather stump down.

After chiro visit - no slipping of shoulder 'in hand' Whether it will hold or not I am not sure but chiro says its chronic - happy days!! Have had two other chiros who have not really taken the 'slipping' on board. Hopefully yours will be fine and caught early and treated by someone who knows what they are looking at, probably be easily cured.