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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Time is your friend....something like this will take months not weeks to improve...good luck...m |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Bear - 2015-11-24 9:16 AM Bibliafarm - 2015-11-23 5:13 PM If there is no infection then half your battle is won.. Id give her more time.. possibly take her home to save you money and do home care.. my gelding fractured both his hocks and it took a good 8 months to heal and then was slowly back in low level training..good luck.. I think this is very sound advice. It certainly won't hurt to try all these other things, but the most important is patience and perseverance. Two weeks isn't very long. "Inflammation" is part of the normal healing process. The most potent "antiinflammatory" agent available is steroids, and we wouldn't give steroids to a human for this kind of injury. Shouldn't be any different for a horse. Again, for any injury like this, inflammation is normal and even essential for the healing process. Be patient. It will probably take quite some time.
I agree with what Bibs and Doc are saying here, I went threw a horrible time with my gelding in 07 . Time and patience is the key words here... |
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| Don't give up, you hear of horses that are on stall rest of 9=10 months depending on injury. Once infection is ruled out, I would try and get her home. I would looking into magnets, laser, acupuncture, along with what others have posted. But just getting her home, and back into what is familiar to the horse Will be good for her. Hang in there. time is on your side! |
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Location: Arkansas | darchick - 2015-11-24 10:25 AM
Just spoke with the vet. He is sending me a video of her walking. He says she is still pretty lame, but he says she is improving "slightly." He still feels like it is not infection, just inflammation at a very sensitive area of the hock. However, they still have her on antibiotics. She was on Bayril and they've switched her to Excede. He says they are slowly weaning her off her anti-inflammatories (bute and prevacoxx, although I know they gave her steriods at some point), but want to continue her cold salt therapy 4x daily at least through the end of this week, and hopefully she will improve a little each day.
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Location: west of East Texas | I just went through this too. Mine did go through the infected bursa and torn tendon. The cut was on march 3rd and the torn tendon happened on June 1st. She threw a fit in the stall after being kept up for 3 months and tore the tendon. She spent most of the first 4 months with the vet. In August's xrays, Dr. Honnas said take her home and let time be her friend... probably a year. Stall rest was not an option to me as that is how she tore the tendon, she's not happy locked up. She started on THE Nutrawound in mid-July. In November, she was acting so full of herself I took her in for a check up on 11/10. Honnas said saddle her up and see what happens. I've ridden her several times and she exercises herself as hard as a real workout. This was all out of my pocket too but this mare was worth it and I'm glad I've spent the money on her. I have strong hopes that she'll be running again by March. |
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Location: Around here somewhere... | teehaha - 2015-11-23 3:19 PMJMO but if it's only been 2 weeks since her injury and she isn't getting any worse I'd sure give her alot more time before I decided to put her down. Shoot, a simple splinter on a human takes a week to heal.
This. I had one get cut up so badly that it took 9 months to heal. I thought I'd never ride her again, but she came back sound, just not as fast as she was before. The best treatment that jumpstarted her healing again was shock wave therapy.
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| The mare appears to be improving!!! They sent a video to me Wednesday night that had me in tears because of her lameness. The next day they sent me a new video that showed marked improvement and I cried tears of joy!!! She is going to stay there until the end of this week to continue the cold therapy. I've talked to Bob and I plan to start the Nutrawound asap. I'm continuing to pray for a full recovery!! I appreciate everyone's advice!  |
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| Got my mare home after 5 weeks at the vet. She is stable, but has a long way to go.
I'm looking for success stories or words of encouragement, as right now I'm feeling defeated. Any creative ways to ice the hock and cover the point of the hock??
She is still very lame and has significant heat and swelling at the point of the hock. She's on previcox daily and bute if she needs it. I'm also cold hosing. The wound is mostly healed, but the swelling is significant.
I'd post a pic, but I don't know how.
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| You can find an ice hock boot, I think Sneider's Saddlery had one for around $35. I have rigged a human knee brace for icing hocks before. I have also iced with a regular ice boot-put it around the hock then a running boot below it to hold it in place. I iced while eating a big flake of alfalfa so they would not move around too much. Good luck with your mare, they can overcome the odds. I have a gelding that was given less than a 19% chance of recovering from a severely torn suspensory and he came back 100% sound. |
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| I have an Ice Horse which will wrap around anything. |
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Location: Florida.. | rodeomom3 - 2015-12-15 8:34 PM You can find an ice hock boot, I think Sneider's Saddlery had one for around $35. I have rigged a human knee brace for icing hocks before. I have also iced with a regular ice boot-put it around the hock then a running boot below it to hold it in place. I iced while eating a big flake of alfalfa so they would not move around too much. Good luck with your mare, they can overcome the odds. I have a gelding that was given less than a 19% chance of recovering from a severely torn suspensory and he came back 100% sound.
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| We've had a set back since I got her home Saturday.
She has a full fledged infection of the tendon sheath confirmed with ultrasound today. It's been opened for draining and she's on 3 different antibiotics.
Prayers we can overcome this setback. |
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Location: WI | darchick - 2015-12-18 1:14 PM
We've had a set back since I got her home Saturday.
She has a full fledged infection of the tendon sheath confirmed with ultrasound today. It's been opened for draining and she's on 3 different antibiotics.
Prayers we can overcome this setback.
Prayers!
I have been in this situation for a possible infection in the tendon sheath. I ended up doing surgery to get it cleaned and luckily it didn't get into the joint and my mare made a full recovery and is 100%. The injury itself wasn't near as extensive as yours sounds to be though - This was just a tiny puncture wound on a back ankle that turned into an infection. I hope you have good luck like I did! |
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| darchick - 2015-12-18 1:14 PM
We've had a set back since I got her home Saturday.
She has a full fledged infection of the tendon sheath confirmed with ultrasound today. It's been opened for draining and she's on 3 different antibiotics.
Prayers we can overcome this setback.
I had one who had an infected tendon sheath, the vet had to go in three consecutative days and scrape the infection out. 2 months later, I was legging her back up, I was running her 6 months later and she was placing in the 1d, sold her to a kid in high school rodeo and was placing in barrels her first year. She turns so hard the kid ended up falling off a few times the second year, so I ended up getting her back, that leg has never caused her trouble. |
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| My vet didn't mention surgery or anything today? He just opened it up and flushed it and then started systemic abx. I hope that was enough 
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| Ug ... this whole story is heartbreaking. I'm sorry you're going through it.
A couple thoughts -
Contact Bob at THE. Their products work and work really well to support and speed healing.
Someone else mentioned laser therapy - but what I think they meant is red light therapy. I highly recommend the revita vet system. They are specifically made with the correct wave length for deep tissue problems - ie tendons, tendon sheaths, etc. I have seen them work on my hauling pals' mare when she nicked a tendon. Also, they are PROVEN with peer reviewed journal articles to work. I am more than willing to share the articles I have stored away ... They are worth the money and not hard to use at all.
Good Luck and lots of thoughts n prayers ya all make it through this tough spot!
ETA - Doc and others are correct, TIME is going to be your friend with all this.
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I would like to post photos but have no idea how?? There used to be directions somewhere, but now I can't find them?? Can someone post the directions or the link? |
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Location: Arkansas | I'm of no help on anything but the praying, so ill do that
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| I would try the Respond Laser. Treat around the opening. If you need to treat on it wrap the laser head with a plastic bag. Then treat over the wound. Also I would try the Cur Ost Products. |
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| darchick - 2015-12-18 10:49 PM
When y'all refer to surgery, are you talking about general anesthesia MAJOR surgery? Or standing sedation type surgery?
I would like to post photos but have no idea how?? There used to be directions somewhere, but now I can't find them?? Can someone post the directions or the link?
Mine, the surgery was knock her out and strap her to the table. I believe the first time in, they intubated her, I believe the surgery time was 30 min.
The other times to my knowledge they didn't intubated her and the surgery time was 5 min. It took her longer to recover from the anesthetic. |
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