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| Just wanting to hear from others who have gone through this injury. My horse was diganosed with a coffin bone wing fracture on her back left after we think kicking something really hard. They put her in a bar shoe and said to keep her stall rest for 3 months and then they would come back and re x ray to see how its healing. For those who have been through this what are some other treatments you used, how long did it take to come back from it, did they come back to work food as new? |
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| I will add the horse is a 12 year old mare who has never had any other injuries, never needed to be injected. |
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Location: who knows? | I am currently on 9 months with fracture of the coffin; however, mine is down the middle of the bone. I done a month of acuscope/myopulse thereapy on him, 6 months stall rest. At 6 months he was sound in the round pen but not on hard pavement. Everyone I have talked with said minimum 12 months for coffin fracture. I also have a bar shoe on. |
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| I have always heard 12 months and was shocked when my vet said 3 months |
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| I'm sure it depends on the severity and where the fracture is located.
That's being said, my mare had a stress fracture on the front coffin wing caused from a bone bruise. She was also put in a bar shoe, I did osphos, a calcium supplement, 60 days stall rest, 60 days small roundpen turnout and 60 days turnout no riding. She looks pretty good right now. I will be going in for her MRI next week Thursday and take another look.
I will keep you updated!
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| Mine had a small fracture in a wing of the coffin bone. Laid him off for 9 months and everything looks good on xrays now. Has been cleared for LIGHT exercise for the next 3 months, with hopes of being good to start excising hard and getting ready to run at the end of 12 months from injury. He feels completely sound now (10 months), but will wait for the 12. I was told at first it could be 3-6 months because it wasn't a bad crack, but it healed slow, and there was no good side to rushing. If it gets messed up again, you have a cripple. |
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| It is so good to hear from people who have gone through the same injury. I'm in no rush either, I'd like to have her as sound as can be. |
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| I sent you a PM. Do you have access to a laser? That would help a lot.
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Location: who knows? | readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 12:11 PM I sent you a PM. Do you have access to a laser? That would help a lot.
Is the laser only good for recent injury or? |
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| I am on week 7 of stall rest. My gelding was I'm the wing and no joint problems. My veg here I. My said 8 weeks of stall rest. Then I m not for sure. Reexam next week. His beyond futurity now so no push for Anything. |
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| nvrenuf - 2016-03-28 1:42 PM
readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 12:11 PM I sent you a PM. Do you have access to a laser? That would help a lot.
Is the laser only good for recent injury or?
No it works on old injuries too. Sometimes it takes longer for old injury. |
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Location: CA | Bringing my mare back from one now. She fractured the right hind. For the first three months she was on stall rest, bar shoe with clips all the way around to stabilize the hoof, and laser therapy. After that, she had about 2 months of turnout in a small pasture/pen, then another 2 months on full turnout. I've been riding her consistently since February and she has been sound. She'll starting running again in April. |
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Location: who knows? | readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 1:32 PM nvrenuf - 2016-03-28 1:42 PM readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 12:11 PM I sent you a PM. Do you have access to a laser? That would help a lot. Is the laser only good for recent injury or? No it works on old injuries too. Sometimes it takes longer for old injury.
What kind of Laser? |
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| nvrenuf - 2016-03-28 3:14 PM
readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 1:32 PM nvrenuf - 2016-03-28 1:42 PM readytorodeo - 2016-03-29 12:11 PM I sent you a PM. Do you have access to a laser? That would help a lot. Is the laser only good for recent injury or? No it works on old injuries too. Sometimes it takes longer for old injury.
I use the Respond Laser |
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| As long as it's a non-articular fracture, they heal very well. I have a 22 year old gelding that fractured his left front coffin bone (wing) as an 8 year old...healed fine after a bar shoe and a month on stall rest...never took another lame step and I enjoyed running barrels on him until just now retiring him.
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Location: mi | My mare did this to her right rear. We did a bar shoe with a pore in pad. The kind that gets very firm so we basically were creating a cast for her. I did no stall rest just turn out in a small pasture. It was the middle of summer so she got that season and the winter off and came back fine the following spring.
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| we had a local horse that fractured a coffin bone and they rested her as the vet said she came back to dust us for years. she was barely 14.2. |
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| Thanks for the responses. It turns out there is a lady who rehabs injuries literally 2 minutes from my house! She has an equivibe plate and a laser. |
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Location: who knows? | These stories sure give me hope that my guy will come back sound!!!! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | bkkelly08 - 2016-03-29 7:34 AM
Thanks for the responses. It turns out there is a lady who rehabs injuries literally 2 minutes from my house! She has an equivibe plate and a laser.
I don't know if I would recommend the plate or not. I don't know that I see something vibrating an already loose/disarticulated bone being a good thing. The Equivibe/Theraplate may have its uses for muscle soreness or other issues for many horse owners but it would not be one of the treatments I tried for this issue. Let's be honest, the reason stall rest is prescribed is to keep that foot as still as possible. Ask your vet to make sure though. The lasers are more supported for promoting faster cell growth. I don't know if they would be able to reach through so much hard tissue though. Usually you have to have a large vet clinic to have a laser with that kind of penetration. Most people's home owned lasers only penetrate a few inches and are better for soft tissue issues. |
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Location: SW North Dakota | I had a little mare who fractured one of her wings several years ago- like the general consensus here, she had a bar shoe, 3 or 4 months of confinement, then an xray. It was healing great, but being as it was fall, I turned her out with a bar shoe until the following spring, re-x-rayed and it seemed to be healed tight. Legged her up and never had any more trouble with it. I think she had about 8 months off, total. |
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| I would not do the Theraplate on a fracture. The laser will increase blood flow to the foot. Which speeds healing. |
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| Just wanted to update you on mine. I would go with 12 months off. After 6 months and doing Osphos we have a LITTLE healing. Not much. Maybe 20%. Mine also had a bruised bone which caused the fracture so the density of the bone was coming back a little also. I plan on just keeping her in her bar shoe and time off. Will give her another round of Osphos or may do lower limb Tildren.
ETA: The MRI still showed some inflammation which told us that she was still trying to heal up.
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| interesting reading this. I just bought a horse that is 13, owner says he was never injured while with her since he was 2. always had a "funny" shaped hoof. Never lame. Found through x rays he has a "crack" in the top/front of his coffin bone - extensor process.
I started him on platinum performance cj. Since he is not lame, they said to just keep riding him as - is. They want to do joint injectioins if he gets sore.
So far he acts just fine. but who knows what will eventually happen. super nice ranch horse |
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| I lied with mine. I thought when the vet was talking to me there was minimal healing. (might have been the tears clouded my hearing, LOL) Looking at his report it only has 1/3rd of the way to go. HOWEVER, They did not know if it would heal anymore. So, I'm thinking this is where we kind of have the same thing. If it is as healed as it is going to get they told me to start riding her and it shouldn't really be a problem. (she is not lame either). There is very little movement in the hoof capsule if shod right. Injections to take any soreness or inflammation away and just be proactive. I feel much better now then when I thought I was losing my mind and favorite horse about a week ago. |
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