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| who has had this done to your horse? What were your results? Any recommended vets in or near north central Arkansas? |
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| I had it done to an older gelding. Night and day difference. Dr Marcott did it for me. |
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| Many vets are now recommending a different procedure to fix locking stifles. They go in and pierce small holes so that scar tissue develops and tightens it up, rather than blistering them.
I had a gelding blistered a few years ago and a mare recently done with the piercing and saw better results with the procedure done on the mare. |
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Location: South Central Florida | I hope this doesn't hyjack, this thread interestes me. I know it's different in different areas, but what does blistering cost (about) and compared to the piercing? Either or. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I had good results from blistering, but even better from PRP. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Sometimes it works
Sometimes it do not work.
It's a viable try and if it does not work you go to something else
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Location: Piedmont, OK | It worked great on an older gelding we had |
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| What is the issue with the stifle? |
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| I took the horse to my vet because he has been generally really ****y acting under saddle and not wanting to hold his leads. Normally he is the sweetest horse and is great to work with. He just felt really off so I took him to my vet and all he said he could find wrong with him was sore hocks, so we injected those. Gave him a few days off and then started riding again and there was no improvement. Went to a clinic this weekend and was told by the clinician she felt that his stifles on both sides were loose and popping and recommended getting them blistered and injected. He is not working off of his inside leg or sitting down in the turns very well. |
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| Hoping to find out in a few weeks. Just got this done to a gelding of mine Friday. Vet couldn't find any soreness, but said this procedure could really help him. Took him in because of crossfiring issues...around barrels and even loose in the roundpen.
To answer Swannranch's question: $350 for the whole trip....lameness eval, xrays, tranq, prep and injections (both stifles). Injections i think were $150 of it.
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| I used to blister my older mare when she was running a lot. We did it ourselves. You can buy the stuff online but you must be very careful when applying it. A tiny goes a long ways.
Only do one section of joints at a time. Hocks then maybe a few months later do fetlocks...ect.
They will swell pretty bad. Use aloe shaving cream to prevent the skin from scabbing and hair from coming off.
I have been told if you are going to blister you need to inject shortly after.
Edited by GrahamKayleigh 2016-03-21 12:04 PM
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| Had this done to a hunter gelding of mine some time ago. The blister ended up getting infected and abscessing. HUGE pus bubble ended up needing to be lanced and then flushed, abx 2x daily for 14 days and THEN start over with the original Tx. After this was said and done it seemed to work...but I was blessed that it happened to the horse it happened to. Otherwise I probably would have gotten the crap kicked out of me since it was so sore and had to be flushed twice daily.
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| So A stifle Blister is EXTERNAL then? I have never really looked into it. My colt I think has weak stifles but nothing on Xray is showing any real damage to the joint itself.. |
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| FLITASTIC - 2016-03-21 12:38 PM
So A stifle Blister is EXTERNAL then? I have never really looked into it. My colt I think has weak stifles but nothing on Xray is showing any real damage to the joint itself..
You can do a internal or a external. |
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| readytorodeo - 2016-03-21 10:57 AM
FLITASTIC - 2016-03-21 12:38 PM
So A stifle Blister is EXTERNAL then? I have never really looked into it. My colt I think has weak stifles but nothing on Xray is showing any real damage to the joint itself..
You can do a internal or a external.
Got it thanks! No wonder I was confused. LOL my colt has been working awesome!!! I have an appointment today with my vet to get his teeth done so I will ask her about it. THanks ! |
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Location: NE Texas | Upward patellar fixation is the term for the issue that we're discussing treatment for. I did the blister on a mare, where a counter irritant is injected subdermally into the patellar tendon in hopes to create enough irritation and scar tissue so the tendon then tightens up and prohibits the catching. Other exercises that will help are backing long distances and trotting ground poles and cavalletti's. Sometimes horses who are very fit and have a long lay off, or who have a sudden weight loss will get this condition where the stifle locks. The reason being is there is a fat pocket there as well, and if the tendon is stretched due to the fat pocket, then the horse looses alot of weight, the tendon then is too loose.
The blister wasn't super successful with my mare, but this has been a very long time ago now. Even then we discussed the "nicking" procedure that would create more scar tissue and should tigten it up even more. |
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Location: Mountains of VA | Let me just say, I HATE stifles!!! After having dealt with stifle problems with several different horses of different breeds and ages, I think the best option is to just leave them alone and concentrate on a fitness program.
I will never spend another penny to do anything to a horse's stifles unless the stifle is completely locking a high percentage of the time.
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