What was your horse doing? Signs/symptoms when riding or running. How long to diagnose, what other things were tried before testing for kissing spine. Treatment you did. Success stories. Thanks. 

My gelding got really cinchy. Checked everything but his back. He then started to get humpy on the way home from a run. Would never buck but would get humpy like he was going too. I never xrayed, did an MRI or anything but got his back injected and he was night and day different. I can tell when he needs his back done (about every 6 months) because he starts to get cinchy again. Just my experience. 

Mine just didn't want to lope to the right. She started getting bracey & would put her head in the air & throw her inside shoulder in. Then the more I rode her the worse she got, to the point where she just hit the brakes & started backing up in a right circle. She backed up for 17 minutes on her own before stopping. But she loped fine on a lunge line, even saddled. She is also the worst horse to trot, like a jackhammer/pogo stick, but we don't know if thats related or just how she is. She has another issue mixed with the KS where 2 vertebrae knocked together fracturing the tips of each, but were long healed by the time we did the xrays. But those are the one's touching and 2 others behind it touch too. Currently trying to find something that works, did mesotherapy with no luck last fall. She doesn't react to the touch anymore, but she still won't lope to the right normally. Going back next month to try maybe directly injecting. Since doing the meso her SI area has become very sore, so looking at that too. Planning on just having the surgery this fall/early winter to just be done with it once and for all. For $1,400 for the surgery its a no brainer to me. For the meantime just been doing what back strenghtening exercises I can from the ground to give her the best chance possible. 

Diagnosis was the easy part. Did a lameness exam, xrayed her back/stifles/hocks, and did the mesotherapy on her all for $700 out the door. Dr Langer knew exactly what it was based on the info I was able to give him. The hock/stifle xrays were not really related, her stifles used to catch a lot when she was younger & we were just deciding if we wanted to blister or not. Hocks just a peace of mind thing. There's a couple posts I had made on here over the last couple of years describing more of how her "symptoms" progressed and interestingly enough none of the opinions I got were really correct because there were other things that the symptoms kind of fit as well.