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| What does the X-rays show for kissing spine? |
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| cmcelroy0308 - 2017-12-17 7:34 PM
What does the X-rays show for kissing spine?
Whether or not the spinal processes are too close or touching.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cmcelroy0308 - 2017-12-17 7:34 PM What does the X-rays show for kissing spine?
Google Kissing Spine in horses and you will get some good information.. |
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| Looks like pain to me. |
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| cmcelroy0308 - 2017-12-16 9:07 PM
Yeah I know. This horse was off a year with torn suspensory
After viewing your videos and seeing him drag a right rear and dance on his left
rear and refusal turning to his right like a 10ft 2x4 ....
I even turned on my 3rd eye to take a look in that fluffy arena dirt which makes
it tuffer to see a problem ...
Then I see the short post you made below .... grrrrr
That should have been the first sentence in your first post!!
A suspensory acts like a rubber band and holds the horses hoof up so it
hits the ground flat while keeping a normal stride. Any problem you have
with a suspensory means the rubber band has broken or stretched and horses
toe is pointed downwards for him to land on like a toe of a ballerina shoe or he shortens
his stride and favors his weight and turn to his good foot as a self pain protection.
Having worked trying to re-hab race horses with suspensory problems for various
trainers. About 20% heal back enough to make a few selected races to run in while
the other 80% healed enough to make good trail or family horses with no events
where they have to exert themselves.
IMO a suspensory problem is almost #1 on my worst injury list. A stifle problem is
a close runner up. Both involve a torn or stretched ligament or muscle mass for
a stifle and in both cases it changes the angles of movement in these areas. A horses
skeleton is completely held in place by ligaments and muscles which make these
recoveries very difficult.
There is no magic exercise, pill, supplement, chiro or massage to put their parts
back in their original positions.
Once you see the long term affects on horses that were de-nerved or blocked to
run 1-2 more races... you will decide in the horses favor and just give them an
easier job to do and let someone enjoy them for a long long time.
All it takes is one bad step or a slip to cause either of the above ...
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Location: North Dakota | I agree -- I think you have a lameness problem. In the more recent video, he actually doesn't want to finish any of his barrels -- it's just worse on the 2nd.
As far as him working the poles, remember that a pole turn is a little different than a barrel turn. He may be compensating better on the poles, than he is on the barrels.
Let us know what the vet says, especially with his suspensory injury history.
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| Thank you everyone. He’s going tomorrow |
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| He’s past suspensory injury was his right |
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| Went to vet today has a bone chip in hock that broke loose. Going next week about surgical options. |
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| cmcelroy0308 - 2017-12-19 7:12 PM Went to vet today has a bone chip in hock that broke loose. Going next week about surgical options.
Best of luck |
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| Thanks for taking him to the vet! Some people just won't and keep blaming the horse! Good luck and I hope you get him feeling better. |
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| Update...... he had surgery today. They ended up finding 2 chips even tho X-ray only showed one. When they got in there another one was in the soft tissue. Did a lot of joint clean up. Prognosis is great. 6 weeks off. Thank you everyone. |
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Location: MO | Great that you got him taken care of! So happy that the prognosis is good.
Question though...6 weeks? We had a chip removed from the fetlock and he was on stall rest for a month, then hand walking/small (roundpen sized) turn out for another 30 days, the another 2 weeks(Ish) of light riding/legging up, then full on work after he was released by the vet after the follow up. Maybe it's just a difference of vets but 6 weeks seems short for having 2 chips in the hock area. |
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| 6 weeks he can start to be ridden lightly, not back to full work/running |
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| He’s 2 weeks of stall rest and 4 weeks of light turn out in small round pen. Then rechecked if ok, then onto light riding. |
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