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Sock Snob
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| i have a 10 year old gelding with a lower hock fusing, and one of the northeast best vets said 2 rounds of shockwave over the winter should fix him. I was reallymsick in december and had sinuse surgery first of january and we have had some mean weather so i was just thinking about a second opinion sent Dr. Meeeker of north carolina a copy of xrays and asked for am opinion she called back and told me that dr. Meeker thought that shockwave would be a waist of time and asked it was okay to forward the xrays to another surgeon at virginia tech and would get back with me and we got some nasty weather, we got snow but we are at the coast and itmturned to rain and is about gone. So hopefully in a day or i will get an answer. so i dont know any one have opinions. |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I would wait for the vets opinion. With that many diff vets looking into it, you should get a pretty good idea. |
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The Advice Guru
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| With fusing hocks I have always opted to speed up the process by surgical fusion, it is expensive, but then I never have to think about them again. |
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Sock Snob
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| I just did not,think shockwave front the opinion would be a speedy thing and notma,suremthing and both vets are the best in about 4 hours. One a little old school and the other younger look at all options. I think it will be next week due to all the snow on the east coast.
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Location: MD | What vet did you see thats the best in the north east? |
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| Once they fuse your horse will actually be in less pain. Shockwaving is for soft tissue stuff too and hock are NOT soft tissue. Did you have him injected? Sometime hock(TMT) injections can help the fusing process so that he will be better quicker. |
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 Tough Patooty
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Location: Sperry, OK | Only about 30% of horses actually comletely fuse. So just because your horse is "fusing" does not mean he will fuse completely. You might just have a horse that needs regular hock injections like the rest of us 70%ers. 
Edited by ACEINTHEHOLE 2014-02-14 1:03 PM
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| ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-02-14 1:02 PM
Only about 30% of horses actually comletely fuse. So just because your horse is "fusing" does not mean he will fuse completely. You might just have a horse that needs regular hock injections like the rest of us 70%ers.
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Sock Snob
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| Evidently there must be something different as my first opinion was with Dr. Riddle and he injected him and suggested i do 2 shockwave treatments, but i got sick with sinus infections and had to,have surgery after christimas and have had sinus infections since then times 2, as time went on bad weather so i deciededto get a second opinion with Dr. Meeker and the office told me the shicwave was a waste of my money and they where going to fwd to a surgen at va tech as to,what to do. I just want my horse that doesnot hurt anymore.
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Location: mi | ACEINTHEHOLE - 2014-02-14 2:02 PM Only about 30% of horses actually comletely fuse. So just because your horse is "fusing" does not mean he will fuse completely. You might just have a horse that needs regular hock injections like the rest of us 70%ers.
Yep I will be running a 19 year old this summer that I just had hock exrays done on and he is not yet completely fused and they suggested when we start to get legged up we might want to have him injected. |
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Sock Snob
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| The problem he is sore enough that he is not running. So i need to get him in a place where he comfortable. That is where the vet comes in. He was injected 3 times last year in that hock. I want him to be confortable. He was balking at the gate, he is a nice horse just need to get him past this. |
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 Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | daisycake123 - 2014-02-15 7:58 PM The problem he is sore enough that he is not running. So i need to get him in a place where he comfortable. That is where the vet comes in. He was injected 3 times last year in that hock. I want him to be confortable. He was balking at the gate, he is a nice horse just need to get him past this.
Some horses need it every 3 -4 months .thats alot but realistically thats as long as the meds work.. if that is the issue and it helps ..
did they inject all the joints? and also have you looked at stifles as well. |
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Sock Snob
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| Did upper and lowers in march, them did them again in end of june along with stifles, and in october he was thermoscaned and only sore in left hock. Still acts the same way.
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Warmblood with Wings
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Location: Florida.. | daisycake123 - 2014-02-16 3:28 PM Did upper and lowers in march, them did them again in end of june along with stifles, and in october he was thermoscaned and only sore in left hock. Still acts the same way.
Ok was he better within the few months they were all done? |
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Sock Snob
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| No not realy, even as per vet with previcox and banimine.
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| If you have already injected hocks and stifles and he is still sore I would look somewhere else as to be causing the soreness. Have you had his feet xrayed? They can make his entire body sore. |
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Super Woman
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| If you have already injected hocks and stifles and he is still sore I would look somewhere else as to be causing the soreness. Have you had his feet xrayed? They can make his entire body sore. |
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Sock Snob
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| He has had my reg. Vet inject him twice last year. Then carried to a proformance vet she said he was not,sore enough to have a fusing hock, them when he completely baulked in the arena and back was so,sore i,felt sorry carry to big vet in md thermo scan said let hock was bugging him so he injected him again. Went to nbha world show and he ran anout the same not as much balking once i changed saddle pads. He was sore and i could watch my videos that watch him take a extra step on second barrel. So i get home then i think maybe a second opinion might be helpful big specialist in nc, they call me and said shock wave on my horse waist of money, they are going to, send to another vet. Fast forward my shoer comes out today he said from the way he is standing and leaning he is sore on both hocks, he has been off of all meds for a month during this bad weather. Got me thinking if sore on one hock he may be as sore on the other hock and show season right around the corner. I want him fixed. I have an offer to,use another horse, but i have owned for nine years and i have a nice yearling. I would like to think a couple of injection would fix him. It didnot last year. I know its rear end as if you watch him run you can see xtra steps.
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Location: Nebraska | I think if they're sore in their hocks long enough they'll compensate in other parts of the body. I would almost look into the SI. I'm dealing with this with one of my mares right now.
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Sock Snob
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| Not sure as it is someone dr. Meeker trust for advise.
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