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| RocketPilot - 2017-08-10 6:49 PM
hannahbug - 2017-08-09 8:13 AM Any vet that recommends riding a lame horse instead of a referral. . . . Find a better lameness vet. And for your horse's sake, sooner rather than later.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | IowaCanChaser - 2017-08-10 7:51 PM RocketPilot - 2017-08-10 6:49 PM hannahbug - 2017-08-09 8:13 AM Any vet that recommends riding a lame horse instead of a referral. . . . Find a better lameness vet. And for your horse's sake, sooner rather than later. ^^^THIS We are going to a good vet in TX to get this figured out and fixed once and for all.
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| hannahbug - 2017-08-09 8:13 AM Any vet that recommends riding a lame horse instead of a referral. . . . Find a better lameness vet. And for your horse's sake, sooner rather than later.
Yes, terrible vet, what if "running him hard" makes it worse? You want a vet who knows how to find the sue, not hurt your horse more do it will show. I have a horse that hat shoes and feet looked great to X-ray showed different. Also one with hard to find issue, it turned out be a suspensory tear. |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2017-08-10 7:54 PM
IowaCanChaser - 2017-08-10 7:51 PM RocketPilot - 2017-08-10 6:49 PM hannahbug - 2017-08-09 8:13 AM Any vet that recommends riding a lame horse instead of a referral. . . . Find a better lameness vet. And for your horse's sake, sooner rather than later. ^^^THIS We are going to a good vet in TX to get this figured out and fixed once and for all.
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| No collateral ligament in their hoof, they have a medial and lateral collateral ligament running inside the hoof, that is what she tore. They also have collateral ligaments in their stifle and pretty much every joint LOL, but the one in the foot is the hardest one to diagnose due to being hard to image. |
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Location: Downsouth | IowaCanChaser - 2017-08-08 10:09 AM
I have a horse with significant front right foot lameness. Only visible in a circle on hard ground. Went to the vet and it didn't change with nerve blocks in every part of the foot/leg. Shoulder and Elbow are normal after hard flexion. Cervical Verrebrate X-rays are normal. His soreness is bad enough that he refuses his first barrel (right) and is extremely gate sour. Completely at loss of what to do. Vet suggested running him hard until it's very obvious what hurts. I can't bring myself to do that to him especially when he is in enough pain that he refuses barrels. I have gotten 3 different vet's opinions. Any suggestions/prayers is appreciated.
I'm sure I will get bombed for this....send a hair analysis to Heather Benson. I went through this for 2 yrs. over $5000 in vet bills. Injected everything, some 2-3 times. Analysis showed inflamed bursa sac on front right. Shod at correct angel, problem solved. Thank God for Heather. Before I found her, I was ready to kill the mare and myself. What's another 25 bucks!!!
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Location: Wherever the Army sends my husband | rodeomom3 - 2017-08-10 8:23 PM
hannahbug - 2017-08-09 8:13 AM Any vet that recommends riding a lame horse instead of a referral. . . . Find a better lameness vet. And for your horse's sake, sooner rather than later.
Yes, terrible vet, what if "running him hard" makes it worse? You want a vet who knows how to find the sue, not hurt your horse more do it will show. I have a horse that hat shoes and feet looked great to X-ray showed different. Also one with hard to find issue, it turned out be a suspensory tear.
I had a very similar situation. Mare seemed off but not obviously lame . Took her to 4 different vets before she was diagnosed with a suspensory tear. The 3rd vet even said the same thing "run her till it gets worse, then bring her back". I made the horrid mistake of listening to them and it did absolutely make it worse! She is on month 8 of rehabilitation and I am terrified that she will have to be retired.
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Location: OH. IO | checking in,when does he go to the vet??keeping him in my prayers |
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Location: New Sharon, IA | I am also in Iowa. I was concerned about my daughters horse due to her standing strangely also. She was standing with her right rear extended out behind her at pretty much all times when at rest. I watched this for many months before I finally decided to take her in. Took her to Dr. Abrahams in Cedar Rapids. Excellent vet. He didn't do any blocks but flex tested her up high and that showed the lameness coming from her right stifle. Xrayed and found a compromised meniscus. She wasn't refusing the gate or the barrels but her first barrel was always a struggle to get just right. She just had surgery to remove the pieces of meniscus and clean up the joint a month ago. Dr. Abraham did the diagnosis and Dr. McClure is who did the surgery. Both excellent lameness vets in Iowa. Good luck! |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Love2runbarrels - 2017-08-09 4:58 PM Collateral ligament tear, my horse was lame only in a circle to the left, nerve blocks did not improve the lameness (common with collateral ligament tears), we x rayed, injected coffin joints, special shoeing...we did it all. Finally the vet did an ultrasound on her medial collateral ligament (we did leverage testing to determine if it was the medial or lateral collateral ligament that was bothering her) and we saw the tear. We were lucky to see it on ultrasound because sometimes it is to deep and can only be seen with MRI. Treatment was a denoix collateral ligament shoe, shockwave therapy and time off. She had about a year off total. This could be your problem, or not but just like to throw this out there is weird lameness cases because it is an under diagnosed/misdiagnosed problem a lot because it can be hard to diagnose without MRI.
Following this as my horse is going through the same thing. Last stop is Tufts on Monday for MRI $3400 just for one foot, but I hope we can discover what is wrong. |
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| Maybe she got goofy in the pasture and twisted herself. Maybe give her a week of.previous and see if she is better. Then go from there. My mare.started doing the same thing after 2 weeks off because of.the hot spell and I had somethings to do.for another week. At first I thought she was being naughty,.but on day I ran my hand down her to check her and she is sore, after a week off.she is better, so I giving her some.previous for a week see what happens. My filly could almost do a sliding stop and I had just taken a lesson from a good reiner, the kind that would notice soreness
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