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| Tweet Topic Started: May 3 2010, 05:46 AM (211 Views) | |
| lhunterl | May 3 2010, 05:46 AM Post #1 |
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Is the meadow on fire?
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Leave it to my filly to injure herself if creative and unusual ways. Started out looking typical of a stone bruise, but after a few days it seemed higher up in the leg to me (and "not right" for a bruise). Took her in and vet isolated elbow. Luckily films showed no fracture, chip, or OCD. There was some roughness near the front of the elbow that looks like some kind of slight damage from trauma, or a soft tissue injury. Vet said she doesn't get to read a lot of elbow films so she forwarded them to a colleague that has. Hopefully I'll hear back from him today about which scenario he thinks it is. I have to say that only once in my life have I ever known a horse with an elbow injury, but that was an OCD that essentially crippled the horse. This is a new one for me. We're starting with 10 days restricted turnout and bute, and evaluate as we go. Vet seemed to think we're looking at anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. I only got to ride her 3 times since she came back from the trainer. Go figure.Anyone have any experience with elbow injuries? |
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| seal harbor | May 3 2010, 12:24 PM Post #2 |
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I think my horse has one. He got mad at us while clipping him and blew out of the groom stall, spinning on the rubber mat at the front. That was the leg he pivoted on. We didn't do rads, but he has been on stall rest - Oct -March, started getting turned out again end of March - drugged - has been going out pharmaceutical free for the last month. Getting evaluated again in the next couple of days to begin riding. It was high, the movement in the elbow wasn't smooth, vet was looking at feet at first, we kept pointing to the elbow. Probably soft tissue for my horse. Vet had said he could be stall bound with hand walking for a YEAR!!! Poor head guy almost died hearing that, my horse gets silly and nips people, on the bum, while being hand walked. We were evaluating weekly so we could save Jose from having to hand walk him. That came sooner rather than later. Now the horse tries to escape from the other guy when being led back to the barn from turnout or having his legs washed after being turned out. He is bored! All he does is eat, sleep and go out. |
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| lhunterl | May 4 2010, 05:55 AM Post #3 |
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Is the meadow on fire?
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Wow, I hope I'm not looking at that length of time. Mine doesn't do stall rest AT ALL. She's in a little bitty paddock, but still spends some time pacing. Stall rest would require serious drugs to keep her still. How lame was yours? Mine presented as sound to the right, intermittent lame to the left. She'd be lame a circle, sound a circle, lame, sound, lame. Hard footing, soft footing, didn't matter. No swelling or heat anywhere. When she was sound she was totally normal, then would be dead lame and back to sound within 30 seconds. It was the strangest thing. That went on for 3 days with me treating it like a bruise. The 4th day you could now see the lameness when she was going right, and she was very lame to the left. That was the day I thought it looked higher up, not in the foot. I also noticed she was standing with that leg slightly out. The next day she was back to almost sound. Saturday at the vet she was quite lame again. With as bad as she looked to the left, even the vet went "wow" when she went right and looked almost 100%. |
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I only got to ride her 3 times since she came back from the trainer. Go figure.




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