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| Please share experiences with this. Xrays are clean but fluid pocket on front of knee. Drain? Other means of getting the fluid to go down. Not lame.
Lamness issues in your experience? Any information would be greatly appreciated. |
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Location: Southwest Louisiana | I've got one that has this too. Never had it before yesterday, no sign of injury or trauma, isn't lame on it and has been jumping around just as much as he usually does. Looks about the size of a golf ball on the front of the knee and feels like fluid. Never had this before on any of mine in 30+ years. |
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| my horse has this too.. she has had knee surgeries for chips and had arthritis, but the fluid bubbles didnt show up until about a year after surgery while she was on rest for a tendon. She is legged up and turned out now and still there. I have tried using my BOT knee boots, sweating it, and using a respond laser and none made a significant difference. I am interested in other peoples experiences too... My vet said if shes sound not to worry too much, it may just be cosmetic butI cant help but fill shed run better without it. |
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| I have a horse that has this too, he also x-rayed clean. My vet said he probably had some trama to it at one point to cause a lot of swelling and fluid, and since it stretched so much it is just taking awhile for it to come back down to size. It happened 3 years ago and each year it looks smaller, but still slightly noticeable to me. When he initially hurt it, it was just smaller than a grape fruit. He was also never lame. |
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| I had one that had this...he was a jumper and the horse kept causing the trauma somehow on his own. (Getting up from laying down, whacking his knees against the panels, etc.) He also x-rayed clean and was never lame. Nothing took the swelling down completely, it was always a little puffy until he was put down. Never affected his athletic ability at all. You can potentially prevent it from getting bigger by adding bedding if stalled, etc, but you can't really make the fluid go down or move to another area. I believe it is encapsulated in that joint or the bursa around the joint. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.) |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I have one that gets swelling on her knee. I do DMSO/Furazone sweats at least once a week and use back on track quick wrap and knee wrap to hold it in place. |
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| Has anyone ever had it drained? |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Had a mare with one..i had her before it happened and one day when she was like 5 she kicked at another horse on opposite side of pipe fence and caught top of her hock so hers was capped hock but never affected her..she was never lame and vet looked at it over the years and never anything to it other than lump on top...he said leave it alone and so I did and it never caused any problems. Just a blemish. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | A gelding I used to have was always pawing and banging his knee on the pipe fence. The result was a leak in the tendon sheath causing fluid on the knee. He was never sore or lame. Vet had us treat by painting on DMSO mixed with Cortisone. Basically the DMSO is used to carry the Cortisone into the fluid pocket. It apparently worked as the fluid was re-absorbed. |
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Location: Ft Worth TX | shaynan - 2015-08-11 1:34 PM
Has anyone ever had it drained?
I do not think draining it would do much as most the time the fluid returns |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | you can also use DMSO mixed with Dex to sweat it and pull the fluid out |
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