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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | My mare has been lame for awhile now, first it was a diagnosed stifle injury and when I had the vet out yesterday he said she's got an injury in her superficial flexor tendon, but does not have any heat or swelling...the only symptom is pain. She will put weight on it but usually has that leg cocked when standing and limps at the trot. He said to confine her to a very small area for awhile and see if she will heal. He also x-rayed her and everything looks clean as far as bone and joints. Has anyone ever seen a horse with such an obvious lameness with no heat or swelling?
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Location: Arkansas | Yes, this week! I can't find the source but it came up after I tried a new product on my horse. :/ No heat, No swelling. Slight limp and doesn't stand square on his legs. I have been watching some accupressure videos on youtube and found my horse is very sore up in his neck and poll on the same side as his limp. I am curious if that is the culprit? He is not sore in his back or withers anywhere but when you run your hand over his pressure points on his hamstrings he is sore there also on both sides. I feel your frustration. I thought that I would share my experience in case it might help in some way. |
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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | I had her adjusted a few weeks ago and she was very flinchy during the entire adjustment, she was "out" in several areas but has not improved since. So frustrating! Luckily she is just a trail horse and not a performance horse; I just want her to be able to be ridden again! I'm afraid she's going to have to be confined for many months. Good luck with your horse! |
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Location: Texas | I have an 9 year old gelding came up lame about November of last year. Could not find any injuries. No heat. No swelling. No tenderness. He would hold his leg up. Point it out in front. Thought maybe abcess or stone Bruise. Didn't get better. Took him to a sports medicine vet and he diagnosed him with arthritis in the coffin joint. Injected him. Put him on previcox. No improvement. Still no heat swelling or tenderness anywhere. Took him to my regular vet two weeks ago and he thought he was navicular cause at that time he showed heel pain. Shoer came out the next Monday and by then he was showing tenderness and swelling above the fetlock. Two days later took him to another vet. She xrayed higher on the leg and found a bone lesion. Looks like some of the distal cannon bone cortex is gone. And she ultra sounded him and found suspensory damage. Gonna take him for an MRI to see what's going on with the bone. But it took several month for the swelling and tenderness to show up.Ugh... |
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| Esther - 2014-04-02 11:25 AM
Yes, this week! I can't find the source but it came up after I tried a new product on my horse. :/ No heat, No swelling. Slight limp and doesn't stand square on his legs. I have been watching some accupressure videos on youtube and found my horse is very sore up in his neck and poll on the same side as his limp. I am curious if that is the culprit? He is not sore in his back or withers anywhere but when you run your hand over his pressure points on his hamstrings he is sore there also on both sides. I feel your frustration. I thought that I would share my experience in case it might help in some way.
Do you think its from the wrap or maybe he injured it during your run before and you just so happened to use the product that day? I hope you figure out what it is, I was thinking of trying them out and am a little hesitant now. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I had a mare with a small ligament tear. No heat, no lameness, just a very very small amount of puffiness that could be felt but not seen. |
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Location: Texas | Yes, I know of several people whose horses had torn ligaments or tendons and they're horses had no visible swelling from the outside. My mare tore her suspensory but she did it in a weird way, I think she cast herself in the stall or kicked at a horse in-between the rails because she had a chunk of hair knocked off and she swelled up like a stump. It was a weird injury all the way around. |
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Location: IL | My husbands heel horse had a slight tear in his suspensory. He did it back in August. I had the vet out did xrays and lameness exam. Xrays were fine, no heat or swelling. We ended up taking him to Purdue University for an ultrasound and that showed the tear. He was confined to a stall or small pen away from the other horses. No bute or pain meds. Vet said it masks the pain and they can play and reinjure it again. My husband used runners relief 6 days a week at night. We just started long trotting him and he's seems great! I also bought him some back on track no bows. Good luck it's a long recovery. |
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Location: Arkansas | FlyingJT - 2014-04-02 11:41 AM Esther - 2014-04-02 11:25 AM Yes, this week! I can't find the source but it came up after I tried a new product on my horse. :/ No heat, No swelling. Slight limp and doesn't stand square on his legs. I have been watching some accupressure videos on youtube and found my horse is very sore up in his neck and poll on the same side as his limp. I am curious if that is the culprit? He is not sore in his back or withers anywhere but when you run your hand over his pressure points on his hamstrings he is sore there also on both sides. I feel your frustration. I thought that I would share my experience in case it might help in some way. Do you think its from the wrap or maybe he injured it during your run before and you just so happened to use the product that day? I hope you figure out what it is, I was thinking of trying them out and am a little hesitant now.
He is running, bucking and playing as of yesterday evening, but I am clueless. I don't know if they "pulled out"some soreness that wasn't evident otherwise. I am not sure if I am wording that to make sense or not. I am wondering if it was muscle sore from lactic acid build up. He wasn't showing any soreness last night when I went over his points. I honestly don't know. It could be a coincidence. It could be the cuprit. I am like you. I was really looking into buying some in hopes that they would be another positive for my horse but I am very hesitant to try again right now. Let me know if you do try them how they work for you. |
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Location: IL | Esther - 2014-04-03 11:12 AM FlyingJT - 2014-04-02 11:41 AM Esther - 2014-04-02 11:25 AM Yes, this week! I can't find the source but it came up after I tried a new product on my horse. :/ No heat, No swelling. Slight limp and doesn't stand square on his legs. I have been watching some accupressure videos on youtube and found my horse is very sore up in his neck and poll on the same side as his limp. I am curious if that is the culprit? He is not sore in his back or withers anywhere but when you run your hand over his pressure points on his hamstrings he is sore there also on both sides. I feel your frustration. I thought that I would share my experience in case it might help in some way. Do you think its from the wrap or maybe he injured it during your run before and you just so happened to use the product that day? I hope you figure out what it is, I was thinking of trying them out and am a little hesitant now.
When our gelding got diagnosed with the suspensory tear, he was barely lame. The vet said these injuries are hard to diagnose because sometimes they don't even look lame or sore and then the next day they are really limping. That's exactly how our gelding was. We were all stumped. Then the ultrasound showed the tear. So becareful, he can tear it worse. |
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Location: Up and over to the right | I vote suspensory injury too. Sounds just like my gelding. The vet blocked his heel and he was 3 legged lame then blocked below his knee and he was 80% better. Has been off for a month in a small medical paddock with no walking yet. Wears BOT knee boots and standing wraps during the day and gets poultice/Butacort wrap at night. |
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Location: Oologah, Oklahoma | I have my mare confined to a small pen (I'd say 20 x 20 with a 10 x 12 stall) away from the other horses. I haven't had her ultrasounded yet but I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and see how she is in a few weeks to a month; if no improvement I will take her to be ultrasounded. I think she just needs a TON of rest and hopefully she'll be able to be ridden again (pleasure/trail horse). |
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| runners releif is the best i did that on my mare with a suspencery tear 90 day sweat , just had a second aulta sound done and the vet could not beleave how good it healed could not even see the old injiry or and scar tissue |
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