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| My horse started what I'd call short steppin a back leg Thursday. I quit riding him, and turned him out. Stride went back to normal. Rode him Friday afternoon, and same thing. Rested him all weekend, and back to normal. Hauling him to the vet Monday. She is also an equine chiropractor. What you guys think? Had em go lame on the front, but never the back. |
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Location: North Dakota | That happened to my mare. We determined it was in the stifle but after 2 years it never got better. |
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Location: Texas | Tying up? |
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Location: Texas | If you send me a video I can tell you if it's a stifle. [email protected] |
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 I Don't Brag
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| I have battling a short step for what seems like forever. My colt started short stepping as a 2 yr old. Watched him, thinking it was growing pains. The following winter I carried him to the vet and HE thought the same and had me give a course of adaquan-type stuff. Come spring I took him back where an x-ray of that stifle showed a cyst. He put him on a course of shots that helped clear it naturally. Still short stepped but digital xrays showed it clean. THAT vet recommended a body scan or exploratory arthroscopic surgery as they could not block him sound. First vet said that he'd try injecting it. We did and he got sound, so last October, I sent him off to be broke. He spent the winter there (between the cold and abscesses he got rode in the fall and then again in spring). I got a call saying that he had a come apart an REALLY bucked, and was crippled in the same back leg. I went to see him and thought it was in his back, so brought him home to be chiroed along with some acupuncture (this was April). He went sound for a few days, then came in pretty lame. Went to vet and he shock waved the illio-sacral-lumbar ligament. Went sound for a few days then I witnessed him running and bucking, NOT landing his hind feet and skidding on his belly, hind legs straight out behind him. Went back to vet (for second shock wave appointment) and we decided that it was neurological and we ended up treating him for EPM. He got significantly better...... for about 1 1/2 months, then started short stepping again. I got him chiroed, and he got better immediately but started short stepping within a week each time. Last time I asked why adjustments were not holding. He said.....wait for it....he thought the illio-sacral-lumbar ligament was damaged..... So went BACK for shockwave last week and he is still walking out!
And this is why my 4 year old is not completely broke. sigh
Hope you get to the bottom of your horse's issue. The above story was to illustrate how frustrating it can be. |
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| Hamstring. I have one. She short steps in back. |
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| I laid off of him all weekend, and called the vet this morning. She said lightly ride him, and see what he does. Build up until I can do anything I want on him without him short stepping, but if he does, she wants to see him immediately, while he is short stepping.---------If all that make sense.
I hope it was just a passing thing. May not be though. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Get a bone scan done. If it doesn't lite up then try someone that knows how to do a myofascial release on the muscles in the hips/pelvis. A light massage does little to help I've learned it takes painful release to get a horse moving again. |
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Location: Kansas | fibrotic myopathy? |
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| I hope not. We warmed him up quit a bit tonigh. Chased a few calves down the pen hard to teach them where the stripping chute was, then light work on a roping sled. He was fine. Hope he's fine from now on. |
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Location: Central Texas | He didn't just get a trim before he started doing this did he? Mine had a split in his back hoof that really ended up knocking off alot of the hoof wall so his trimmed exposed a little more of the tender wall than I liked (no way around it). He short stepped on that one hind leg for about 20 yards at the beginning on each ride until he got into the arena where the ground is softer. He rode off sound after that. He's taking a short break now until it grows out some. I freaked at first when I saw him short stepping until I figured out why. |
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 The BHW Book Worm
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| rodeoveteran - 2015-10-18 9:20 PM
I have battling a short step for what seems like forever. My colt started short stepping as a 2 yr old. Watched him, thinking it was growing pains. The following winter I carried him to the vet and HE thought the same and had me give a course of adaquan-type stuff. Come spring I took him back where an x-ray of that stifle showed a cyst. He put him on a course of shots that helped clear it naturally. Still short stepped but digital xrays showed it clean. THAT vet recommended a body scan or exploratory arthroscopic surgery as they could not block him sound. First vet said that he'd try injecting it. We did and he got sound, so last October, I sent him off to be broke. He spent the winter there (between the cold and abscesses he got rode in the fall and then again in spring). I got a call saying that he had a come apart an REALLY bucked, and was crippled in the same back leg. I went to see him and thought it was in his back, so brought him home to be chiroed along with some acupuncture (this was April). He went sound for a few days, then came in pretty lame. Went to vet and he shock waved the illio-sacral-lumbar ligament. Went sound for a few days then I witnessed him running and bucking, NOT landing his hind feet and skidding on his belly, hind legs straight out behind him. Went back to vet (for second shock wave appointment) and we decided that it was neurological and we ended up treating him for EPM. He got significantly better...... for about 1 1/2 months, then started short stepping again. I got him chiroed, and he got better immediately but started short stepping within a week each time. Last time I asked why adjustments were not holding. He said.....wait for it....he thought the illio-sacral-lumbar ligament was damaged..... So went BACK for shockwave last week and he is still walking out!
And this is why my 4 year old is not completely broke. sigh
Hope you get to the bottom of your horse's issue. The above story was to illustrate how frustrating it can be.
ugh this whole story makes me sick I went through something EXACTLY like this... she never was sound for much time and I threw in the towel sold her... 3 years later still not sound. |
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