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Married to a Louie Lover
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| So my colt has a tear in his front SDFT. Happened 2 weeks ago yesterday in turnout and was officially diagnosed yesterday via ultrasound. Would have liked to have gotten it diagnosed sooner, but our holiday schedule and the vets holiday schedule didn’t allow. I don’t think we did any harm by waiting, but it is nice to know exactly what we’re dealing with.
Since it happened he’s been confined and kept quiet. I’ve had standing wraps and no bow quilts on him for support. Per the vet we are on 30-60 days of confinement then 30-60 days of walking on firm flat surfaces under saddle. Making sure that heat and swelling is staying out of then tendon before we increase any exercise.
A friend had a more serious tear in a suspensory and had good results with “SmartTendon” from SmartPak so I’ve got some ordered, figure it can’t hurt. It’s not a terrible tear, but you could you see fiber seperation pretty clearly on the ultrasound.
As far as wrapping, heating therapies like BOT, or cooling therapies like icing - my thoughts are once we bring him back into work BOT before riding to warm the ligaments/tendons, sports medicine boots during, and icing after to remove heat. Pretty standard stuff but making sure we are diligent with it.
Anything else we need to consider? |
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 Hog Tie My Mojo
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Runners relief |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | i iced my mare for 60 days post injury. i used a gel pack and polo wrap. i also changed out with the profesional choice ice boot that you freeze and velcro on. i used epf5 per my vet also for a cooling gel under the wrap. i also added some calm b to her diet as she is one who is not happy stalled for long time frames no matter how good it is for her. |
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Location: Claremore, OK | Unless it’s a very small lesion I wouldn’t go to exercise that soon. I would want the lesion healed at least 90% before I started exercising other than minimal hand walking. I you do choose to exercise and find the lesion isn’t healing at least 10% per month I would definitely go back to stall rest.
Ligament and tendon injuries are slow to heal since there’s very little blood supply. Runners Relief, laser treatments and magnetic wraps will help increase circulation.
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SHOOT IT
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Location: TEXAS | Don't want to steal this thread, but has anyone ever tried Equine Leg Magic for leg injuries. I bought some but I'm having a hard time getting my horse to eat it. Adding corn oil or syrup like the website suggests just leads to a sloppy, sticky mess, so I really don't want to have to resort to that. |
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Location: North Dakota | For icing the legs, I have been LOVING the CoolAid Equine wraps I bought last year. You can do ice and compression in "one step". They work fantastic.
I got lucky and found a pair on sale so I keep watching so I can get a second set for my other horse.
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| I’m going to get some Runners Relief.
On the ultrasound there was no actual “lesion” in terms of a “black hole” if that makes sense. You could see a change in density over the arena where the fibers stretched. Or at least that’s the way the vet described what we were seeing vs what we’d have been seeing if it was a bad tear.
I’m leaning towards 60 days off at least and maybe longer weather pending. 60 takes us to March 1st which will still be pre time change and hit or miss weather wise. I usually don’t have time to ride more than 1 anyway until after the time change and I’ll have my good horse to leg up. So 90 days wouldn’t really hurt any of us. It could have happened at a way more disappointing time of year. |
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Location: Texas | I had access to a Respond Laser and used it for 3 days and then laid off for 2 days. I lasered from the top of the leg going from one side to the other as I went down the leg to the coronary band (went around the whole leg), working to increase blood; went around coronary band also. I did this for 90 days and made a mixture of coconut oil, frankincense and lemongrass and rubbed the leg every other day. |
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