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| Does anyone have any experience with a fibrotic myopathy? |
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Location: Kansas | I had a grey mare with it that I sold a few months ago
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| Do you know what caused it and how did you treat it? |
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Location: Kansas | The mare I had got it from backing into a bolt on the horse trailer slicing her open. Years later the scar tissue lead to the funny gait. There was no treatment because she didn't need any, and I refused to pay $1,200 on a surgery that could make it worse. She still was running 1D and pulling checks so I didn't bother with treatment. |
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Location: Tom, Oklahoma | I have a friend that had a horse get hung up in a cattle guard. He developed it in the hind quArter. He always had a pop in his step afterwards but still worked pretty good. She sold him. |
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| Thank you all for your responses. Definitely making me feel better! Has anyone ever heard of a horse getting one after an injection? If so is it due to a bad injection or just an adverse reaction? |
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Location: Kansas | armartin - 2014-12-22 1:35 PM Thank you all for your responses. Definitely making me feel better! Has anyone ever heard of a horse getting one after an injection? If so is it due to a bad injection or just an adverse reaction?
no I can honestly say I've never heard that. Fibrotic myopathy is normally due to scar tissue that has been built up over a period of time, which causes an abnormal gait (normally in the hind end from the cases I've seen). But I've never heard of it being caused by injections. |
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Location: Texas | Yep, my best barrel horse has it. She traveled funny on hard surfaces and after the farrier would come out.. I noticed it when I first got her and thought it was my farrier getting her too short. She's won everything this year running with it with me not knowing what was going on.. had a vet injecting her hocks every 3 months thinking she had a bad hock from a fence accident.
Finally in November I had a vet see her do it during a lameness exam... so, now we think vet #1 just never saw it, and hopefully she won't need her hocks done so often.
I am not very concerned about it at this point. The vet that diagnosed it had me put her on bute and methocarbamol for ten days and start long trotting her to try and relax the muscles. If that doesn't work or it gets worse, we can surgically clip one of the insertions of the muscle and hopefully get some of her stride back.
On sand and soft ground she looks normal. When you ride her she feels normal most days. Trot her on concrete and she looks crippled if you didn't know what was going on.
Since I highly doubt I will ever sell this mare, I am not too freaked out about it. She's such a special mare to me it's just one more reason to keep her around LOL.
Here is a video of her doing it... this is about the worst it looks. She fluctuates on how short strided she is.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6KoXjpJP3w
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Location: USA | My daughter's High school rodeo gelding had it happen to him. It was caused by a torn hamstring while running barrels. They changed the order of events at the rodeo she was at , and she wasn't allowed enough time to warm up, and that is why he injured himself. Then, an improper diagnosis by an incompetent vet, who gave us the wrong rehabiltation advice, caused the hardening of the muscle. Once we determined the cause, we treated him by cortisone injections and Shockwave therapy. This injury happened in 2006. He is now 23 and still running 1D times. He has a hitch in his stride, but is able to function totally fine. We do yearly Shockwave therapy to keep it from hardening further, and Surpass, massage and stretching all help him to perform well. My niece ran barrels on him last summer and I borrowed him to a friend, for her little 6 year old to run. He can still get the job done. But I limit his riders to 100lbs or less. I highly recommend the Shockwave treatments. There may be other treatments available now as well to help manage . This is him and the 6 year old in September. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1d26p6cpBE
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| Thank you all very much. On the way to the vet to confirm/deny diagnosis. I will keep you all posted. If it is in fact a fibrotic myopathy I would definitely like to get more information on what everyone does to try to keep the muscle relaxed. |
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Location: Kansas | armartin - 2014-12-23 2:08 PM Thank you all very much. On the way to the vet to confirm/deny diagnosis. I will keep you all posted. If it is in fact a fibrotic myopathy I would definitely like to get more information on what everyone does to try to keep the muscle relaxed.
if you have any question, feel free to PM me, or add me on facebook "Aushlin Lowry"
I dealt with FM for 3 years with that mare. |
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