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| Tell me your stories/experiences! Found out today my only horse tore his suspensory. Trying to stay positive but we've got a long road ahead of us and I'm bummed to be out of competition for so long:( |
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| Time is your friend. I have dealt with a couple.of suspensory tears. And both went back to.competition. I would sweat the leg with Furacin and Dmso. Wash it off the next morning and then that night use Sore No More Poultice and wrap.it. I did this every night. You want to confuse the injury. I have also had success with Runners Relief. 5 days on and 2 days off. I lasered the leg every day also. I had the vet ultrasound every month. Equine Regen in the feed daily will speed up healing. You can cut your down time in half. |
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| Keep them moving, don't let them just sit in a stall. I have one I need to start riding but I havent had the time ?? |
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| I successfully rehabbed my gelding from torn suspensories twice. The first was 6 years ago, pretty severe, vet gave less than 15% chance of recovering. He came back 100%. I did PRP, wrapped with Runners Relef at night for 3 months. He was suppose to be stalled 24/7. I kept him stalled for 1 month, then gave him a pen , then by 3 months he was getting turned out during the day. Vet gave me a controlled exercise program to follow too. Vet was amazed at his progress. He was completely healed st 9 months and given the go ahead to compete but I gave him 2 ore months just to be safe. His second tear was this year in the other leg, not as bad as the first. I did the same treatment plan and he was back in 6 months. Good luck!
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Location: Canada | I did PRP and shock wave treatments on mine. He is about to go back for an ultrasound but he is expected to make a full recovery. |
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| aqhabarrelchic1 - 2016-04-09 1:04 AM
Keep them moving, don't let them just sit in a stall. I have one I need to start riding but I havent had the time ??
I disagree here. They need at least 30 days in a stall with a buildup of hand walking as per veterinarian direction
You also need to have the angles of heel and toe checked. Suspensory injuries shouldn't happen without serious extenuating circumstances.
Runners Relief is a good idea.
My mare did damage to her right hind suspensory. I switched shoers, listened to my vet about stalling and walking, swam her, wrapped endlessly, legged up for a three month period, and went back to work. The shoer was the most important change I made. |
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Location: Oklahoma | I had to keep mine stalled for about 3 months and only do hand walking for 10 minutes a day. Get yourself some Runners Relief. I couldn't wrap my gelding, but I did just slather it on his legs and rinse off. Did three shockwave sessions and BOT leg wraps towards the end of his time on stall rest. |
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| My vet said we can either do 60 days stall rest and then start swimming him, or do stem cells and PRP and start swimming right away. He said the stem cell/PRP route will help it heal stronger but not necessarily much faster...I may get a second opinion on the stem cell treatment because I don't know much about it. I wonder if something like Back on Track wraps help at all as well? I don't use BOT right now so I'm not sure how it works. |
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Location: Oklahoma | nicole.b - 2016-04-09 12:09 PM
My vet said we can either do 60 days stall rest and then start swimming him, or do stem cells and PRP and start swimming right away. He said the stem cell/PRP route will help it heal stronger but not necessarily much faster...I may get a second opinion on the stem cell treatment because I don't know much about it. I wonder if something like Back on Track wraps help at all as well? I don't use BOT right now so I'm not sure how it works.
My gelding wasn't really a candidate for PRP as he did not have a tear... only inflammation, but I wouldn't hesitate to do stem cell/PRP on one if I had one that could use it. I have heard many, many good things about it. I would be hesitant to start activity that soon, but I haven't actually dealt with it... so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
BOT helped me out, but do not use it in the beginning. You want to draw out the heat early on. The BOT helped out towards the end because he started to stock up on me from the stall rest, but that eliminated that for me. |
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| We kept ours in a stall with a small run so she could walk, but not run for 60 days. Then a small pen for another 60. Back on Track wraps every night, TLC in her grain, aluminum egg bar shoes with pads. She was back to running with 8 months off. We had it ultrasounded about every other month and followed vets orders on when we could start exercising. Also used
Iconoclast rehab boots when we did start exercising. |
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| For those of you who suggested Runners Relief, what is the difference between this and other poultice? |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Look into a cytowave. I could not afford prp or stem cell. I rented a cytowave and mine made a full recovery. |
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| Equine supplements are a multi billion dollar a year industry targeting "LOVE" of horse owners worldwide. Horse diets have become as confusing as a first timer making a pan of biscuits. Pinch of this, pinch of that, opps forgot the salt and bam biscuits flop and come out of the oven a disaster. Has your horse become a disaster? Horses are simple!! Diets are simple!! Basic shoeing and balancing are simple!! But we tend to get complicated. Musculoskeletal injuries are a leading cause for decreased performance and early retirement in the equine industry. Stem cells, through science can improve outcome following tendon (superficial digital flexor) and ligament (suspensory) injuries, decreased re-injury rate in a large series of clinical tendon injuries. The longer you wait, the less chance your horse has of returning back to competition without re-injuring themselves. Equine Regen invigorates stem cell release and mirgration, aids in cellular regeneration, powerful anti-infammatory, enhances cardiovascular and respiratory functions and provides optimal immune function. Equine Regen 100% sourced by nature, all natural. Proven by Science!! |
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| nicole.b - 2016-04-09 12:09 PM
My vet said we can either do 60 days stall rest and then start swimming him, or do stem cells and PRP and start swimming right away. He said the stem cell/PRP route will help it heal stronger but not necessarily much faster...I may get a second opinion on the stem cell treatment because I don't know much about it. I wonder if something like Back on Track wraps help at all as well? I don't use BOT right now so I'm not sure how it works.
Have used stem cells and had excellent results. Cannot visibly see the tear post healing on ultrasound
There is a few things my vet has done said
Before stem cells can be injected you need an organized healing pattern, ultrasound can show this.
Stem cells he says do heal faster, and miminal scar tissue, while leaving it will always end in scar tissue. Scar tissue doesn't have elasticity therefore is more prone to retearing.
Mine were in stall rest for 6 weeks then back to legging up for 3 months.
It also depends which suspensory tendon, as one won't heal and needs a graft, the other will heal but will develop scar tissue |
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| nicole.b - 2016-04-09 12:09 PM
My vet said we can either do 60 days stall rest and then start swimming him, or do stem cells and PRP and start swimming right away. He said the stem cell/PRP route will help it heal stronger but not necessarily much faster...I may get a second opinion on the stem cell treatment because I don't know much about it. I wonder if something like Back on Track wraps help at all as well? I don't use BOT right now so I'm not sure how it works.
Stem cell therapy made a big difference in my nephew's recovery from shoulder surgery. It has healed much better than his other shoulder did. He plays college football. The doctors were VERY pleased with the quality of healing compared to the first shoulder. Both were done by the same doctor. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | My mare had a suspensory tear and sesamoid fracture last year. She was stall rest only, wrapped with MagnaCu Tendon Wraps every day for six weeks. I took her in because her attitude had changed and we found that the bone fragment needed to be removed, but there was no evidence of any damage to the suspensory. That was January to March. I was off of her after the surgery until August, but the vet had told me that I could start riding her again in July. |
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| GLP - 2016-04-10 11:01 AM
nicole.b - 2016-04-09 12:09 PM
My vet said we can either do 60 days stall rest and then start swimming him, or do stem cells and PRP and start swimming right away. He said the stem cell/PRP route will help it heal stronger but not necessarily much faster...I may get a second opinion on the stem cell treatment because I don't know much about it. I wonder if something like Back on Track wraps help at all as well? I don't use BOT right now so I'm not sure how it works.
Stem cell therapy made a big difference in my nephew's recovery from shoulder surgery. It has healed much better than his other shoulder did. He plays college football. The doctors were VERY pleased with the quality of healing compared to the first shoulder. Both were done by the same doctor.
Wow this is really good to know, thank you! |
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Turn out!!! I had a very bad (almost 3/4) supensory tear on my 6 year old and turned my horse out to roam free on 100 acres. One year later, he was faster than ever and is 16 now; running strong and made his best 1D ever runs after the injury. I took the advice from a very old track vet in Ocala, FL and turned him out - NO TREATMENT whatsoever.
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