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| Hi. My colt has stifle lesions. Figured I would get him started and then have surgery before I asked him for speed. Ran aaa on track. Son of Panther Mountain. How long of a layoff afterwards? Any special maintenance while healing? Vets used if in Texas? Cost? Thanks! |
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| I would use the vets at Mesa lameness center in Pilot Point. |
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Location: Texas | Dr. Weston Davis did my horse's stifle surgery but he moved away from TX shortly after doing it. I had the surgery done on Oct 5. December 5 she was cleared to start riding. She's cleared to run now- they wanted me to wait until either the end of Jan or first of Feb. She's sound and been exhibitioning through January. |
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Location: Iowa, LA | Dr Lewis at Elgin Vet did mine. It was around $2500 for one. He came back to run as good as ever. Mine was stalled for 30 days and turned out in a small pen for 30 and then turnout in pasture for 30. No special treatment but I do loading doses of Adequan anyway. |
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Location: Texas | Yes I did 2 weeks in a 12X14 stall, 2 weeks in the 12X14 stall with access to a 12X32 run. After that she got 6 weeks of progressive turnout. 10 weeks post surgery she was able to start exercising and there weren't any restrictions, it was just start getting her back and shape. |
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| Would those of you who have tried it agree that the average cost was $2500? |
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| Another question...do all horses with lesions hurt? He ran aaa most of his career. I would imagine they never thought to check for lesions because he was winning races. In fact I probably couldn't have bought him because if they'd have known he might could have run harder they may have done surgery themselves to run him his four year old year. So is he just tough...or do they sometimes not bother a horse? |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | c-mae - 2014-01-28 11:09 AM Another question...do all horses with lesions hurt? He ran aaa most of his career. I would imagine they never thought to check for lesions because he was winning races. In fact I probably couldn't have bought him because if they'd have known he might could have run harder they may have done surgery themselves to run him his four year old year. So is he just tough...or do they sometimes not bother a horse?
I think it bothers them WAY worse turning and running vs running straight. Every horse is different.
But I also bet that they injected him prior to running each race to eliminate pain issues that I am guessing they knew about. |
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| Yeah they may or may not have injected...I know my vet said he had no scarring from any sort of injections including jug so that's good. He wasn't ever matched and came from one of the most reputable trainers racing qhs right now. I've been a track girl all my life and know there are some that aren't as lucky as this colt. Ive seen more that care about them than not...unfortunately the "not " make it hard to do business. We just had a run in with the "not " recently. Ill definitely have it done. Not sure how common lesions are. Hes the second I've had with them that I know of. The other didn't run so tough on the track but was a turning dude but wouldn't fire. I wasn't aware he had them until a couple owners down the line a girl called asking questions about him. Turned out her vet had found lesions...she did surgery and said he went to kicking everyones butt. If id have known that's what kept him from running 1d times id have never sold him. But he looooved to turn and just not fire. I guess it depends on the horse. |
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| can some one educate me on stifle lesions and how they are diagnosed? symptoms? |
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Location: Benton City, WA | TurnLane - 2014-01-28 9:45 AM c-mae - 2014-01-28 11:09 AM Another question...do all horses with lesions hurt? He ran aaa most of his career. I would imagine they never thought to check for lesions because he was winning races. In fact I probably couldn't have bought him because if they'd have known he might could have run harder they may have done surgery themselves to run him his four year old year. So is he just tough...or do they sometimes not bother a horse? I think it bothers them WAY worse turning and running vs running straight. Every horse is different.
But I also bet that they injected him prior to running each race to eliminate pain issues that I am guessing they knew about.
We have a calf horse that had surgery on both his stifles (arthroscopy) and some lesions debrided several years ago. He was definitely lame at the time of diagnosis and still has issues, even after the surgery. He needs injections several times a year in order to perform. When he is hurting he gets really hard mouthed and bad in the box. I also found out that when he is hurting he will not turn a barrel to the right, lol. Or pick up the right lead.
On the other hand FWIW, I bought a mare OTT that had just finished out her racing season (she won every race entered that year) and being a vet, I noticed she was off in a forelimb and we found multiple chips in her knee that must have been there when she was running. I personally know her trainer, and talked to him about it, he had been running her on some bute and had never injected the knee or anything else. Thankfully since it hadn't been injected ever, the surgery went really well and she's sound on it now. Obviously it didn't bother her too much though, since she was winning with it. She was a sprinter. She is a gritty B*&Th though, and I would gladly take 10 more like her, so hopefully yes your horse is tough!!!
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Location: Texas | they only bothered my horse when she was stopping, turning, or backing up. She never quit running.
I don't know of the actual cost of it. I got a discount on mine. |
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