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Location: New Mexico | Hi all, I'm suspecting my mare is sore in her SI's. I've not found much documentation online regarding barrel racing. Most articles are about dressage. Please tell me what your horse was doing, symptoms, etc and what helped to fix the problem. Thanks so much! |
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| Following..taking one to the vet Friday with a hind end soreness, suspect SI or stifles...
He's tender when I palpate his back in that area, he also stands camped out a lot. 2nd barrel we have started blowing off the backside and running sideways to the top of the arena, especially the 2nd day of running in a row. He also stops wanting to work when we rope on him after like the 6th steer... |
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Location: California | I had two of them - at the same time. One was a team roping horse and stopped pulling completely. He was a 1300lb bull dog of a horse that should have had no problem pulling. He got injected and sold as a high dollar head horse not long after. The other was a DTF barrel horse that was young but ran too much before I bought him. He would get to a barrel and speed up instead of slowing down - head up in the air, drop his shoulder, etc. Slow work he was fine but when speed was added he lost it. His hocks, back, and SIs needed to be done and he was much better for a short time. Night and day difference if I kept him injected but I finally cut my losses as it was a bit too much for me to want to deal with. |
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| Nothing fixed her. She is a broodmare now. |
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Location: New Mexico | Bump.  |
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| I have one. She does not want to collect and when she lopes she almost has a little hop that is really rough to ride. I inject her SI when she lets me know that it's bothering her and it gets her back to feeling good within a couple days. I usually only have to do it once an year. |
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| For those of you who inject, how did you/your vet decide that is what needed done? |
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Location: Windoming | Got one now that I think needs to have his injected. Seems like about every two years he needs it done. He is 13. This will be the 3rd injection (right side). Signs he shows are usually subtle. Off in the back end just slightly. This time he is also crossfiring and slinging his butt around the barrel. |
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| If you have chronic SI issues, you'd better xray the neck. Many times chronically sore SI's are a result of a neck injury. Injecting the SI won't solve the problem and you very well could end up with a case of full blown wobblers on your hands. I've had two chronic sore SI horses now. Sidekick was sore in his SI and we kept injecting. Wobblers took his life. Fame was really sore in his SI. The new vet insisted on X-rays. Sure enough, he had two fractured vertebrae. As near as we can guess, he flipped while having his head tied around. No arthritis had developed yet. We injected the vertebrae via ultra sound and that fixed the SI. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | SKM - 2017-08-09 3:47 PM If you have chronic SI issues, you'd better xray the neck. Many times chronically sore SI's are a result of a neck injury. Injecting the SI won't solve the problem and you very well could end up with a case of full blown wobblers on your hands. I've had two chronic sore SI horses now. Sidekick was sore in his SI and we kept injecting. Wobblers took his life. Fame was really sore in his SI. The new vet insisted on X-rays. Sure enough, he had two fractured vertebrae. As near as we can guess, he flipped while having his head tied around. No arthritis had developed yet. We injected the vertebrae via ultra sound and that fixed the SI.
Yep Audie has had neck issues since May and was thought to have wobblers. He is now very sore in his SI and we found soreness in his hocks that can cause to some of his issues as well.
My other horse with chronic SI issues was found to have a broken pelvis that healed wrong. He's been a pasture pet since the age of 6 |
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| SKM - 2017-08-09 4:47 PM
If you have chronic SI issues, you'd better xray the neck. Many times chronically sore SI's are a result of a neck injury. Injecting the SI won't solve the problem and you very well could end up with a case of full blown wobblers on your hands. I've had two chronic sore SI horses now. Sidekick was sore in his SI and we kept injecting. Wobblers took his life. Fame was really sore in his SI. The new vet insisted on X-rays. Sure enough, he had two fractured vertebrae. As near as we can guess, he flipped while having his head tied around. No arthritis had developed yet. We injected the vertebrae via ultra sound and that fixed the SI.
Thank you so much for mentioning this. The horse I'm taking into the vet Friday with suspected SI issues also fights a tie down hard when roping. He ropes much much better without it, but your comments about the neck and SI really make me wonder if he's got something going on there as well. |
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| So I thought I'd update live from the Iowa State University large animal hospital.
I've brought them the soundest horse they've seen in a while. Despite our issues looking largely like a soreness problem and him being sore in his hips after a run - we've flexed him 6 ways to Sunday on concrete and I've ridden him and we haven't seen a darn thing wrong.
They're doing x rays on his lumbar region right now. If those are clean we'll do the back for kissing spines. If those are clean I'll go home and cry a little.
Edit - we have kissing spines! 6 in the lumbar from where the back of the saddle sits to his hips. So happy we found SOMETHING!!!
Edited by OhMax 2017-08-11 10:37 AM
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| What can you do for that? |
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| BROKEN FEATHER - 2017-08-11 1:31 PM
What can you do for that?
For kissing spines? Lots of great threads on it if you want to do more research. We chose to inject for now to see if there is improvement and we found the issue (I suspect we did, granted we stopped looking, but the horse literally gave us nothing with flexing etc). Depending on the success of the injections, the next next step would be to do a ligament release surgery.
Edited by OhMax 2017-08-11 2:40 PM
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