Suspensory ultrasound

[Kyrabee]

If you are worried about it, have the vet image it and/or ultrasound. My mare kicked a very stout pipe fence last December. She wasn’t lame but literally had a goose egg on the outside of her left hind. She wasn’t lame and it slowly started to resolve when…she kicked the fence again. This time, she was slightly off for a couple days but then fine. This spring I turned her out and she lost her mind over the BO’s foal turned out next to her and she ran up and down the hill several times slamming to a halt at the fence line. Yep…minorly lame again. I loaded her up and took her to the vet for X-rays as I was concerned about the splint bone. No fractures and on palpation, he didn’t feel that there was any suspensory or DDFT involvement so we decided not to ultrasound at that point. She has been sound but I think that ‘goose egg’ is with her for life. It has resolved some and the generalized swelling in that leg is gone. The imaging gave me piece of mind to know there was nothing more ominous going on.

Susan

[sara78]

Thank you do you have a picture? And how long did it take to résolve?

[Kyrabee]

I will try to get a picture today. 8 months later it still hasn’t resolved but she is sound…just with a lumpy leg.

Susan

[sara78]

Mine has a fractures splint, just came back today from thé vet

[Kyrabee]

Ooh…definitely broken.
Here is my horse’s leg today. 1st insult in December 2021. Aggravated 2x in March and May.
It is probably 1/3 down from original presentation. I neglected to have the vet email me the X-rays but her splint bone was pristine and intact.

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Glad you got the X-ray and you now know what you are dealing with.

Susan

[IPEsq]

That’s quite displaced. Will you do the surgery to remove the bottom fragment?

[sara78]

Yes, in three weeks, i Hope it IS not going to move more but could not get an appointement before 3 weeks

[sara78]

Hi, so today my horse had his fragment removed, everything went well. Now one month stall rest and thén one month hand walking if everything IS good. I am allready thinking AT thé rehab After 2 months off. Do someone have any rehab plan to share? How did you bring your horse back After injury?

[IPEsq]

If the soft tissue structures are all good, then you likely can progress a bit faster than some rehab plans once the rest is done. Use the month of hand walking to get him up to 30 mins if you can. Then start with walking under saddle for a while. Then add straight line trotting. If there are no complications or setbacks, you can probably build up the trot and back to canter pretty quickly. He won’t have had a ton of time off 3ish months including the time you had to wait for surgery. Surgery site should be well healed by the time the stall rest is done. The main reason to go slow is that everything lacks condition after time off and is prone to injury, not that you will necessarily make this particular injury worse or recur.

[sara78]

Thanks, no soft tissues involved, i was thinking if everything good After thé hand walk a 8 week reconditioning plan

[sara78]

This IS how it looks one week surgery. Now three more weeks confined in thé stall.
I cut totally thé grain and hé s got only Hay untill hé will go out.do you think it s good or should i feed still a bit of grain?