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Location: Oklahoma | Have any of you had experience with a broken coffin bone in a hind foot? What do you think the chances of one healing sound are? I wish I could attach an x-ray picture but not sure how to with my phone.
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Location: Oklahoma | .....my attempt to post a picture. :)
Edited by Quick3 2014-01-31 3:43 PM
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Location: Great NW | I have seen several heal 100% from a hind foot. just follow vets orders and you should be fine - is this horse easy to deal with - that will make it easier to treat. Remember there are concoxtions the vet can give your horse to help stay quiet in stall rest. |
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Location: Deep South | I've never dealt with it in a hind foot, so I'm not sure how many differences there are, but I had mare break it in her front foot and she healed 100% |
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Location: Oklahoma | Well that’s positive news.  The Vet said if I could keep him still enough to keep the tendon from moving the loose piece, he should be fine. I have never dealt with this type of injury before. I gave him some medicine to help keep him calm and will probably change his feed a little. Vet said we will take another picture in 30 days and see where we are.
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Location: California | Is this an extensor process fracture? Â If so, you'll have to work to keep the horse from developing buttress foot. Â Bar shoe with 4 clips, pad, confinement for 3 months and some type of therapy such as Bioscan Hoof Boot or magnetic pulsing type therapy. Â Been there and done that. Â That is how I treated my horse with the worst extensor process fracture my track vet ever saw. Â I know of someone who had a horse with the same injury but on a hind foot and they just turned the horse out. Â Unfortunately, that horse developed buttress foot. Â Not life threatening but ended his rodeo career. Â Wishing you the best.Â
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| If it is non-articular hind foot (or front) it should heal fine and your horse will be sound. However, if the fracture is in the join,t the prognosis is not nearly as favorable. I have a horse that had a front foot non-articular coffin bone fracture and he's been totally sound the entire 12 years since the injury. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Dang it...I wish I could show you the x-ray! It's high on the coffin bone, close to the coronary band would be.
Edited by Quick3 2014-01-31 6:24 PM
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| Had a broodmare that dead centered a steel upright with back foot. a shoe with side clips to prevent lateral movement of the hoof wall will help speed up healing with less arthritis later in life. Mare was sound, but brood mare only so don't know about competition. |
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Location: mi | My mares was on the outside corner. Put her in a bar shoe, packed it and padded it and she walked away sound. gave her a good six months off and she was good to go. Basically the hoof, shoe, packing and pad made a make shift cast for that foot keeping it stable while it healed. |
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Location: Sorrow Not! Defending against workplace bullies | My gelding had a fracture in his right front. 3 Mos of stall rest with special shoeing and now he is completely sound. Used a slow feeder full of hay to keep him happy. IIt made a huge difference.
Make sure u do not let the toe get too long or it will put pressure on the fracture.
I plan to compete on my gelding this coming Spring! |
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| My paint mare broke her front left coffin bone as a coming 5yr old all the way through the joint. The vet said to put her down and end her suffering but I said I was gonna let it be her choice. Locked her in a stall for a month and then turned her out in a private dry lot. After 2 yrs off, the horse I was supposed to take to NBHA world had a hoof abcess....well I thought I would give in and take my girl for one last run in my mind. I loaded her up and she ran a 3D time and we havent looked back. Minus the joint injections, she is 100% sound and fought all odds. So good luck, if a front one can heal like mine, I wouldn't doubt a hind hoof would be able to do the same.  |
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| We had great success with deep wound healing with the laser wrap from Spectra Therapy. The hoof was cut to the bone and into the coronary band. The vet said it would take 4 to 6 months to heal, but the horse was healed up in 30 days with no proud flesh. You wrap the laser wrap on the horse everyday and leave it on for at least 2 hours or even all day. It will go on and off automatically and administer cold laser therapy treatments for 12 minutes on and 20 minutes off. It takes 2 to 3 minutes to put on. It will help relieve pain along with stimulating the circulation and energizing the cells for healing.
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Location: Valley City,ND | My gelding had a rare subchrondral cyst in the left pastern. The vet said it was like he was running on a broken bone. Found it using body scan at University of Minnesota, after many lameness vets tried. After surgery he ran great but eventually arthritis and chronic inflammation lamed him again. He was injected with steroids n legend n would be sound for a while. But now the vet does not feel it is safe to keep loading the joint with steroids so I turned him out to be a pasture pet. In December I started using the spectra therapy laser wrap....it has taken all the swelling out of the pastern area! I wrap his fetlock/pastern 2 hours before riding and he goes completely sound...I'm trying to be real consistent with daily wraps n it seems to be staying smaller (less inflammation for longer period of time). I know arthritis is not curable but treatable. N this wrap is so easy....I can wrap him and ride the other two while he is getting his full cold laser therapy! I don't have to kneel down and hold the laser pen on his inside pastern at just the right point..wrap the area n walk away. N much more affordable than alot of those laser treatments. JMHO.... |
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