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Discussion on Sore back mystery!
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winger
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 - 11:05 am:
I noticed last summer when the farrier was doing my mares feet her back left seemed to be bothering her so the farrier put her foot down and she couldn't put weight on it.She walks on her toe most of the time and the days its really sore she grunts when she walks which seems to almost be a push forward to walk.My friend is a trained equine message therapist and she says it seems to be a muscle problem.She is very sore just in front of her hip bone in the soft tissue..She seems to be sore in the right girth area and a tight spot on the bottom side of her neck.I have hardly ridden her..I have a little video of her movement but it shows a very small limp.She gets sore on her own in the field,it is rarely from riding..Thank-you any ideas would be helpful.
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DrO
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 - 7:30 am:
Hello winger,
It is time to get your veterinarian involved to get the problem diagnosed. For more on this procedure see, Diseases of Horses » Lameness » Localizing Lameness in the Horse.
DrO
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ekaufman
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 11, 2008 - 9:42 am:
Hi Winger,
A lameness specialist (DVM) at CSU told me years ago that soft tissue pain is "almost always" compensatory to a primary structural (skeletal) lameness. I suspect he spoke out of experience rather than a specific study, but the point here would be that even if your friend has correctly found sore muscles, those are quite possibly sore from accommodating some other primary problem, rather than the cause of the problem itself.
Imagine, for example, if you broke your toe and kept walking around-- you'd develop all kinds of sore muscles as a result of favoring the toe, but no amount of massage would solve your problem.
A lameness exam by a trained vet would be my first step. Good luck with her.
- Elizabeth
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DrO
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 12, 2008 - 6:59 am:
Elizabeth, if I understand you correctly I have to strongly disagree with the CSU vet. In my experience and with the lack of scientific support for the vet's opinion I believe most serious soft tissue injuryies are do to either acute or chronic overloading of the structure. This happens daily in horses with good conformation and without any sign of skeletal disease.
DrO
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winger
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Posted on Thursday, Jun 12, 2008 - 11:29 pm:
thank-you for getting back to me I really appreciate everyones thoughts..I will get the vet to look at her..
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