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| What are some good ways or things that you have done to get your horse properly conditioned after being cleared from vet and 100% healed. My mare had just a minor tear in her upper right front suspensory- it happened in September and now she is 80-90% healed. Once she is fully healed we are going to have her start on an aqua tredmill to help get her back and working...but after that, what work out schedule should I have for her? Any opinions or help is gladly appreciated. |
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Location: USA | I'm just now starting the conditioning of my gelding after a suspensory injury. I found this through a post on here a few months back and showed it to my vet. She thought it was perfect. Even took down the website to see what other stuff they had. They have 30, 60, and 90 day program. Mine is on the 90 day.
http://www.atlantaequine.com/pages/client_lib.html |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | different injury but i think it would still apply. aquatred followed by ponying then outside riding (no circles) then ponying again with circles followed by riding with circles. I would do all of this with no deep heavy ground at least at first. |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | My mare had surgery last year on her left front leg. She went to "rehab," which was water and e-stim. Then we hand walked, with gradual increase on time, for 10 days. Then we walked and trotted via ponying for another 10 days, then we loped-all on gradual time increments for another 10 days. None of this on deep dirt. We also had to keep her somewhat confined so she would run or hard turn on it. Of course, this was my TB and her mind went crazy and one day she bolted while we were ponying and she pulled a hammy so we had to reverse a bit. But she got cleared for full work (which we also did increases on) after the hammy pull healed. I did another week of water work after I felt she was in shape again and her leg was strong. And now everytime she takes a break she gets sent to an aqua place for a week or so about half way in legging her back up.
Remember with water, the leg can get soft so you have to do a few days of gradually working them back up so their tendons and whatnot get firmed again. You can't do just water and then run. I am super careful about that.
eta: I also kept THE Nutrawound going through her until she was cleared to run. I have never had a product work so well for so many different things and have it work on EVERY. SINGLE. HORSE that I need it for. Truly a lifesaver. Every vet that saw this horse couldn't believe how well she healed and I know for a fact a large part of that was because of the NutraWound. Saved Grasshopper's life too...
I thought of one other thing. On that leg, as a precaution, she gets iced after every work out and ice before and after we run (I don't put boots on until right before I run, the ice goes on when we get on the grounds, then she sits at the trailer, then we warm up, then run and then ice immediately after). It has really helped her and some of the scar tissue she has.
Edited by sassy&tessa 2014-12-18 8:37 AM
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Location: Oklahoma | I rehabbed a world champion western pleasure mare for her owner. She had 22 months of stall rest from a serious tear. We started off by 5-10 minutes of jogging and then lots of walking. Each day we added a little bit more. After every ride, the mare wore Ice Horse Evandura boots and the hoof boots for 30 minutes. She came back in 2012 and has been sound ever since and is still showing and winning. |
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Location: California | Long trotting in straight lines ONLY. I worked for an equine vet and also brought back a torn suspensory for a guy I worked for. Trotted back an forth down the arena every day for months. Horse was 100% again. |
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