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Formerly Horse
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Location: TEXAS | About 6 weeks ago my mare started to exibit off/on lameness to right front. Due to current circumstances I have done mostly gravel road riding 1-2x weekly. She can be long trotting sound then go very lame all of the sudden. 10 minutes later it can be 80% resolved. Yesterday I took her to an indoor arena and rode about an hour where she may have been slightly off but questionable if she even was it was so slight then mid trot she went hobbling lame again. Once again significantly better after only a couple minutes. Gravel road is fine rocks. No debris or rocks in foot after any of the episodes. She has not been to the vet but planning to schedule an appointment. No heat or swelling to leg. Several years ago I think she had sidebone show up on an x ray but unsure. I will try to locate those files. Any thoughts?
Edited by BarrelStarr 2016-08-27 4:22 AM
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 Owner of a ratting catting machine
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| New X-rays.
Mine that went lame on right front got new X-rays, a new set of shoes, coffin joint injections (prob only one time, HAD to get inflammation out), and OsPhos. I also iced her feet and ankles everyday for a week.
Her angles were slightly off, only could tell by X-rays, as she is a special case due to conformation.
10 days out she's back to good. |
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The Advice Guru
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| Why continue to ride her if she is sore?
Intermittent lameness can be in the navicular bursa and it is very difficult to diagnose. |
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Formerly Horse
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Location: TEXAS | When I rode her she started sound. Some rides she is never lame. |
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  Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | is she shod |
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Expert
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Location: Bandera, TX | I have a gelding that was lame to me in his right front. Took him to the vet he said no. (Very good lameness vet and surgeon.) I couldn't even get him to waste my $ on pictures. 6 mo goes by and I make 7 runs in that time. I still feel him off and he's not "him". I have a friend ride him around and I think I see him landing differently on that foot or is it in my mind since I'm his rider. I go back to my vet this time after he says I'm only going to call it a grade 1 I tell him I want pics up to his knee. Nothing, clean he says. I ask for a referral and we get an MRI. Thanks to God, no Bony involvement nor soft tissue but he had white line disease that had gotten away from me. I failed my horse terribly. Poor boy was in pain. I've been off of him for 6 weeks he's looking good. My issue probably started due to me swimming him so often and he had possibly picked up a gravel it migrated up the soft feet.
I won't be swimming him as often as I've done in the past and I'm taking care of feet like I've never had before. The wire brush and oxymax are now my friend.
The moral you really need to spend the $ on definitive diagnostic work at times to get to the core of the problem.
PS, I had a hell of a horse 25 years ago with ringbone. He was in his early 20's I turned him over to my kid to run. He ran another 4 years winning. Might just be time for a change of rider or shoeing or putting shock tamers on-something to get her more comfortable. |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Interested in the replies. |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Explains my gelding pretty closely. Seemed like I just get him fit to go run and he'd come up sore, usually the day after riding in the creek or having to ride in the neighbors pasture, one is obviously slightly rocky the other hard. Took him to UC Davis for x-rays and had him blocked, went sound blocking the hoof, x-rays didn't show much, maybe some early coffin bone remodeling. Recommended to shoe him with more shock absorbing type pads rather than the performance hard pads we had him in, give him a week off, start hand walking...etc. Looked good, for about 2.5 months then came up sore again. Took x-rays to my usual vet (had gone to UC Davis to save a little $$ and we were headed that way for CC) He thought he saw several issues with the coffin bone and navicular but then after seeing him move on groomed ground felt maybe not. When he and my shoer were going over his feet during reshoeing him the vet found what he thought was a little thrush that he started to clean out with his hoof knife only to find it was a huge abscess that looked like it had been there a very very long time. As soon as they drilled it out he was sound on it. My vet felt that my gelding would go sound with time off because the abscess was trying to heal, we'd get to going and he'd irritate it again and it would flare up, we'd give him time off and round and round we went. |
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