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Location: Texas | My two year old popped a splint yesterday while I was ponying him. It is high on the outside of his left hind. He is not lame on it and it doesn't seem to bother him. It is just a hard lump about the size of an egg. Two different vets told me to sweat it 12 hrs on/12 hrs off with Dex, DMSO & Furacin. I have read online that it should NOT be sweated, and should be iced 2-3 times per day. Conflicting messages. Of course I tend to lean to what my vets say. But just wondering if anyone has dealt with a popped splint successfully. Again, he is not lame on it, but I am mainly concerned about it cosmetically if I should ever want to sell him. Any experiences and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
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Location: Texas | WOW... no posts??? Am I the only one that has had to deal with this? |
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| The DMSO will take the inflamation out but I agree with you. Heat should not be applied to something inflamed! Ice or cold hose. It will probably go down a lot, but he may have a small bump permanently. I'd lower his level of work for a while for them the "settle down." Personally, I've never seen splints on hind legs. Just baby him for a while. My boy has old splints on his front that don't bother him at all and they aren't as ugly as he is handsome! ;-)
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Location: Texas | Thanks for the feedback. I am discontinuing the sweat. Just didn't make sense to me. It really isn't swollen anyways, just an egg size knot on the outside of his leg. Not lame or anything. I am going to try to ice it a couple of times a day. |
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| My horse popped a splint last year, but he was slightly off on it. I did do a 12 hour sweat, then cold hosed, then repeated with another 12 hour sweat.
Gave him 30 days off with stall rest and hand walked him daily.
Another horse of ours had the same thing, but I cannot remember if she was off or not. We poulticed her with sore no more and kept her in for a week, and hand walked her daily. She managed to rear up-flip over-and took off trotting down the concrete road. Both of her front legs looked BAD after that-so we ended up poulticing again and kept her up for another few days. Once her legs looked clean we turned her out took maybe two or three more days. |
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| You're welcome. I think cold hose will do. When you do start him back in work, keep him in straight lines with no circles for a while until it settles. Good luck.
Edited by cowgirlup2it 2014-07-30 12:19 PM
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