Oh that doesn’t work at all LOL
I’m not sure why! It shows up in my Photobucket Library, and it will play for me. I’ll have to try again, and see if I can figure it out.
Your videos worked for me! Sullivan started out walking just like her and as he learned to compensate better the flip went away! I say (if the vet agrees) start bringing her back into work… Get on her and just walk … We found that after a month we could work in a tiny bit of trot along with leg yield etc (walking) and after about 1.5 the vet watched us canter:) 3 mths after starting him back his first tiny xrail and we’ve never looked back 
:). This is taboo to some, but I strongly believe in an Equine Chiropractor. She worked wonders for a burned out roping horse I bought for my husband. I’m going to have her take a look at Caddy as well, just to see if her trying to compensate has thrown anything out in her back, hip, etc. This thread was exactly what I needed to hear to have the courage to start her again. We are going to start from scratch I think. Beginning with all of her groundwork and basics again. She was so good to let us doctor her while she was hurt, but now she will kick at you just for looking at that back leg. It’s going to take some time, but I know it will be worth it. Have you noticed if Sullivan seemed “clumsy” on that leg? I’m just curious since she flips it up like that, if it will be in sync with her when we do move past a walk.
Not clumsy but he was “stiffer” on it until he figured things out. He does occasionally get a bit more trippy on that leg if the footing is harder or very uneven, but again figures things out really fast. Also he never kicked out, and I had to change bandages every day and have proud flesh trimmed every 2 weeks… Now he seems to enjoy it when I give the scar a good curry LOL
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:). This is taboo to some, but I strongly believe in an Equine Chiropractor. She worked wonders for a burned out roping horse I bought for my husband. I’m going to have her take a look at Caddy as well, just to see if her trying to compensate has thrown anything out in her back, hip, etc. This thread was exactly what I needed to hear to have the courage to start her again. We are going to start from scratch I think. Beginning with all of her groundwork and basics again. She was so good to let us doctor her while she was hurt, but now she will kick at you just for looking at that back leg. It’s going to take some time, but I know it will be worth it. Have you noticed if Sullivan seemed “clumsy” on that leg? I’m just curious since she flips it up like that, if it will be in sync with her when we do move past a walk.[/QUOTE]
IMHO EVERY horse who has gone through an injury like this needs to have regular chiro care during (as much as safe) and for a while after the recovery process. Compensating for a few days generally doesn’t cause long-term issues, but doing that for weeks and months most definitely can. So I fully agree with your decision to have yours look at Caddy
I still can’t see the videos 
I hate that you can’t see them. I wonder why it worked for others. I’m so ready to get her started again!
Raising my hand to join the “severed extensor tendon” club and offering a HUGE thank you to COTH people who recently made my journey that little bit easier by offering their own positive stories. I’d had my 6 month old around a week when she found buried wired in the paddock and severed her rear extensor tendon. My vets work as a team - the first was going to put her to sleep but made a call to his partner who said she had a chance (I have my screaming 9yo daughter to thank for that - I don’t think he would have even bothered making that phone call if she hadn’t been for how upset she was). It was touch and go but vet #2 was positive throughout, so with that, reading all of your positive stories and a lot of nursing I was able to get past the negativity from others and my yearling now canters beautifully around her paddock. My farrier was one of the negative voices but now calls her the miracle horse - nice to see that even die hard old school can accept that they can be wrong. Of course the whole situation has created a monster out of me - I’m so paranoid I practically grid search entire paddocks inch by inch for anything that could potentially hurt her and I worry about her during the day when I’m at work - am getting better with time It’s great to come back here now that the worst is over and read about progress beyond the initial injury time. I’m not even a competitive rider so I’m feeling more confident about her recovery and future as a riding horse than I was before, after seeing and hearing all your amazing recovery stories. Thank you so, so much.
Wow Victorius, that is GREAT!! I am just SO frustrated that your incident was so recent, and yet your vet was so quick to think she should be put down Bless your dtr’s heart!! 
Meant to get back her earlier and reply but got too busy … I frequently tell people about my daughter’s part in it all - she beams whenever I talk about it LOL.
I think NZ must be a bit behind in this sort of thing. I had so much negativity surrounding her prognosis - mostly from old school die-hards but even had a “not a good prognosis” opinion from a young vet specializing in equestrian injuries (a relation of a friend of mine who didn’t see the injury first hand). The first vet continued his care for about a week and at least twice suggested that it might be better to have her PTS but after the initial “reprieve” verdict from his business partner I was having none of it. By the end of the week I would have gone through every vet in the country just to get a positive outlook. Fortunately his business partner is an excellent equine vet and, no offence to the original vet who has been great at treating our other animals, I requested that I swap my girl into his care. I will never use another vet again. He came in absolutely positive and not once did he suggest putting her to sleep. Any issues we had he dealt with and found solutions. Plus he listened to all my suggested solutions (some of them absolutely ridiculous - I currently have a plasticine hoof model I made of her leg thinking I could get a splint custom made!) and not once did he knock me. In fact he praised me for the work I was putting into getting her better.
It IS frustrating that there isn’t more awareness about the high chance of recovery. I’ve been thinking that once her recovery is complete (and I’ve actually told her breeder of how bad the injury actually was - she thinks it was just a minor wound, I couldn’t bear to let her know the real situation) I might write an article for one or some of our national equestrian magazines and include photos. It might actually save other horses.
Oh that would be SO awesome for you to do that! Take lots of progress pictures and videos, and document everything!
How is she doing now?
Hi there! I just thought I’d chime in and join the club! My horse (well, he’s owned by a close friend of mine, I just train and show him), Stormy, managed to cut the extensor tendon and a lateral ligament in his right hind and the wound was to the bone. He did this during feeding time when he went all ‘wahoo’ and kicked his foot through his shelter. While that sort of behavior wouldn’t shock me out of my silly Dutch horses, Stormy is a little halter/western pleasure bred APHA horse. I’d like to think he’d have more sense than that but apparently when there’s food involved sense flies out the window.
That was in January of 2013, and he started rehab later that spring and was back training/showing dressage that summer. At the time he was training/showing 4th level and has since gotten to I1. His leg looks like a Frankenstein mess but apparently he doesn’t care much.
So I offer that up as hope! They can most certainly come through this sort of injury.
If you’re curious, here are some pictures of Stormy from last summer showing (he’s the white paint horse). At the moment we’re dealing with pneumonia (theoretically a nice parting gift/leftover from a respiratory virus he caught at a show this Jan) so he’s been out of the game most of this year. :no:
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