When sacro-iliac injections fail

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My horse is coming up for six week vet review following injections in the sacro-iliac region and although she does seem better, I really don't feel there has been a significant improvement. The vet had said that she should be back in full work by six weeks but I don't feel comfortable asking very much of her yet and am still doing a lot of walking with the occasional trot on good ground.

Should I be pushing her at this stage?

Do you think it is early days or am I justified in being rather pessimistic about our future?

For those of you who found the injections didn't work in the longterm, did you try or have success with any other treatment and what did your horse go on to do, if anything?
 
My boy injured his SI in 2002 I think, before injhecting was the norm. He had 5 months field rest, and although for the first 18 months we did have the odd step backwards (because he would have the odd hoon around the field and tweak something, couple of days off then gently back into work again) he was back in full work after that - jumping 3'6 tracks, doing XC and dressage, working at medium level. He did have various physical therapies but the one that worked long term for him was Bowen, and I never worked him deep - he used his back as much as he could gradually rather than being forced to do so by cranking his head down.
 
My WB was diagnosed by Sue Dyson with chronic SI dysfunction in June 2011 - he had injections into his sacrum, which did nothing, then weekly physio - Tens treatment to stimulate his nerves around the scarum. He was worked daily in hand iin a pessoa at walk for the whole summer - until September with regular physio.

I sent him to a holistic vet Donna Blinman in July for 2 weeks - she is brilliant. She manipulated his sacrum something Sue Dyson said could not be done. She also gave him acupunture and herbal gut treatments. He moved much better after his 2 week stay at Donna's. She is very reasonable.
My horse is turned away - out unrugged, fed adlib. He will come back into in hand work late spring and I hope we will try and ride him with the physio's advice in the summer. My horse has LOU - as his condition is chronic. He likely did this injury at 2 years old and he has subsequently been broken in and ridden with no treatment until I got him and got him diagnosed. He was in dreadful constant pain. He will be 7 this year.

I highly recommend Donna - she gets to the root cause of the problem and being osteopath and veterinary qualified as well as practicing acupunture she has the perfect bag of tools. She is not expensive. She is based at Higham nr Newmarket. Good luck!

http://www.donnablinman.co.uk/
 
I wanted to add that Donna likes to get to the root cause so that the problem does not reoccur. I think this is vitally important as I for one did not want to be worrying that my horse has to be kept in tip top fitness to support that sacrum, else he would be back to square one. She tries to 'fix' the cause and then the horse's body should do the rest. My horse has built muscle since his treatment, which is a great sign.

There was a good article in H & H months ago about SI injuries and there were a few great success stories documented of horses returning to high level competition including one of Lynn Frederick's eventers. It is not necessarily all doom and gloom especially if your horse's injury is not chronic which I am guessing it's not!
 
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