Proximal Suspensory Surgery Advice - Updates at end

[joiedevie99]

@Lexus

Bumping … I have a 5 year old diagnosed with left hind PSD in March. We are currently tack walking 55 minutes/day. He did not have any of the surgical procedures done. The treating vet was not ready to go there yet. If this is a chronic issue I’ll no longer have insurance coverage for the surgery by the time he needs it as it will be excluded by then. So far, other than progressive hand and tack walking he had 4 shock wave treatments. The vet is very optimistic, so that’s something, There were no tears or holes but there was some tiny bone involvement. This was to be a sale horse so it’s really changed my plan.

Another thing, I don’t feel he’s had the best farrier and shoeing but I can’t definitively point to that.

Is it inevitable he’ll need surgery?

Hard to say. I did the surgery on mine, earlier than I wanted to due to insurance, and it ultimately didn’t help. He’s sound at the walk, and sound at the trot until you build up to about 8 minutes - then he starts to go NQR. He’s now retired.

[quietann]

Every time this thread comes up, I feel obligated to post about Feronia. She’s trucking along nicely. Her soundness definitely improves in the summer, when all we do is trail ride. She can be quite peppy and I enjoy riding her almost all the time.

Photo from yesterday… yes she is a bit low-slung. If her legs were proportional to the rest of her, she’d be 16 hands or so. She’s 15 hands but thinks she’s much bigger. [ATTACH=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“thumb”,“data-attachmentid”:10723141}[/ATTACH]