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| New Member: Eventmad |
Posted on Saturday, Jun 17, 2006 - 1:05 pm: HiI wanted some advise. One of my horses was meant to run in an event this weekend. The person that competes him was a little concerned as although he is sound. He has a little bit of swelling in the check ligament area. I took him to be scanned ( as I was taking my other horse) The horse had been seen lunging that morning by me, the farrier and the rider. He was fine. When I trotted him up for the vet. He was 3/5 lame both front legs. I could not believe it ! This has happened twice before, he comes up very, very lame. We start investigating and within a few days he is sound. We have ever found anything. The vet that saw him was my vet and not the riders vet who usually sees him. We nerve blocked and located the lameness to the rear region of both feet. He was also worse when the lame leg was on the outside of the circle, the vet explained that this meant the inside was causing the problem. We x rayed and all was fine. So we are still in the same situation as before. Trying to guess what is going on. The horse has a big event in two weeks, we really need to run him if possible. If like previous episodes he goes sound with no treatment in a few days, we plan to crack on. But we are looking at natural balance shoes and a bar on as he has poor TB foot conformation. Could it just be bruising, which would explain how he could be sound on a surface in the morning and lame on concrete in the afternoon ? The more he did the worse he got ? The vet suggested that he could have strained the ligament that runs over the navicular bone and if so, this was bad news. But if this was the case, why would it occur so quickly and in both legs ? He said that if he was not sound in two weeks, we could try to inject into this area. I am not sure about this as he is only 7yrs old and we have high hopes for him and previously he has gone sound of his own accord. If it is heel bruising would arnica help ? Sorry that there are so many questions ! Thanks Shelley - UK 
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