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| My good horse got his left front stuck in 1.5" electric tape (that was off, and 5ft in the air until my colt took it down) and pulled hard enough to pull it off the fence for a couple sections, and break it... so.. he pulled REALLY hard.
That was in about march. He didnt seem sore, rode him conditioned him etc... But, now, I believe it is coming out as aggrevated.
He is sound on hard or soft ground, all gaits, going straight. Ask him to go clockwise on the end of a lead on hard ground, dead lame, front right.. go counter clockwise, shoves his shoulder in as far as he can, his head to the outside as far as he can.
I thought it might be abcess, but now I dont..
He is VERY reactive in the big muscle that goes up from his chest in between the middle of his chest and point of shoulder. So, I am assuming, deep tissue injury.
I did stretches of legs forward, back, and to the side, and he trotted up the hill in his pen right after I release him and he was short stepping, but moved out of it. I will be getting accupunture
But, is there any other stretches or services other than accupunture that might help? I have had shock therapy done before on a horse but not with a lot of results, maybe this injury would react better to it?
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Location: North Dakota | Puddy - 2014-06-05 2:28 PM My good horse got his left front stuck in 1.5" electric tape (that was off, and 5ft in the air until my colt took it down) and pulled hard enough to pull it off the fence for a couple sections, and break it... so.. he pulled REALLY hard. That was in about march. He didnt seem sore, rode him conditioned him etc... But, now, I believe it is coming out as aggrevated. He is sound on hard or soft ground, all gaits, going straight. Ask him to go clockwise on the end of a lead on hard ground, dead lame, front right.. go counter clockwise, shoves his shoulder in as far as he can, his head to the outside as far as he can. I thought it might be abcess, but now I dont.. He is VERY reactive in the big muscle that goes up from his chest in between the middle of his chest and point of shoulder. So, I am assuming, deep tissue injury. I did stretches of legs forward, back, and to the side, and he trotted up the hill in his pen right after I release him and he was short stepping, but moved out of it. I will be getting accupunture But, is there any other stretches or services other than accupunture that might help? I have had shock therapy done before on a horse but not with a lot of results, maybe this injury would react better to it? Ideas?
Possibly a good massage therapist? Or maybe even a good chiro adjustment. | |
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| I would vet him | |
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| I would worry about a collateral ligament injury in the foot, my horse tore her medial collateral ligament and was lame only in a circle to the left, this could be way off but it wouldn't hurt to look into it. My vet had a thing called KrossChek that you strap on there foot that can wedge up each side individually and if they react painfully to the wedge then you ultrasound to confirm the diagnosis. | |
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| I would have a vet or specialist take a look at him. Would also recommend a chiro along with red light therapy - very nice results when we had it done on two of our horses. | |
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| Thanks for the ideas. I have been doing stretches, he seems to be loosening up, and am trying to get an accupunture, chiro apt for this week. Other than that.. I will have to do some research on vets around here as there are not too many that are specialized as athletic injurys etc.... most of them just do the normal basics... He also popped a splint on each side of the bottom inside of the knee... it is not hot anymore, but he is still super reactive to the muscle area on the chest
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| If he is reactive to the bump on the splint, then my guess is his splint is fractured. If it is a high fracture, in my experience these don't heal as well or fast as low due to the knee. Everytime a horse bends the knee the ligaments on the top of the splint pull and cause movement in the fracture. I had one that had a high splint fracture we injected bone marrow into the splint and it healed perfectly.
Also the high splint fractures left unattended there is more of a chance of developing arthritis in the knee later on due to the movement of the bone.
If you live in Alberta there are a few great equine performance vets | |
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| Hi Cheryl.
I live in Southern BC. He is completely non-reactive to the splints. They were warm when they first popped but now are not at all.
The large, long muscle that runs in between his point of shoulder and middle of chest (goes up along side his neck) is VERY reactive... so much that it feels sinewy and like chords, I can barely rub it and he flinches, never mind getting in and giving it a good massage. I checked my colt and he is non reactive in that spot at all, so something big is going on.
I guess it is accupunture/chiro and if that fails I will be looking up a good injury vet | |
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