UL event horse w/ tendon injury

[Moshposh]

Hi everyone,

My mare was diagnosed with extensor tenosynovitis. I can’t think of a specific time e that she could have whacked it on a fence. Her images are being sent out for consult… And of course it’s the weekend while I wait and I’m feeling a little anxious !
I was hoping someone may have experience with that because I’m not coming up with much online. I’m curious what the treatments are, how how much downtime is needed and if your horse was able to compete at the level it was prior to the injury.
Thank you for any insight

[cbsh13]

My horse had a DDFT in his fetlock area that ruptured the tendon sheath. I did the whole shebang…tenoscopy, irap, stem cells. He was on stall rest/handwalking for a few months. Then walking under saddle, progressing up to full flat work in about 8 months. Started jumping him lightly about 1 year post surgery. He unfortunately hasn’t returned to showing yet as he has just been diagnosed with some “unorganized, disruption of fibers” in the DDFT of the opposite (good) leg
I’m hoping for a quicker rehab period as this isn’t nearly as bad as his previous. But it’s been a long, stressful journey and I don’t wish it on anyone.
The extensor tendon I believe is way easier to heal and less “important” if I remember correctly from everything I’ve read.
Good luck! It sucks!

[cnd8]

My horse had a CDET (carpal digital extensor tendon) injury on his upper knee/above his knee that would accumulate fluid. He was never lame on it, but it sure did look ugly. We found that moving him to a flat pasture, instead of one with hills, helped to keep the swelling down. But again, was never lame, so it wasn’t an urgent thing for us. We did try cortisone injection which dried up the fluid, but it just returned again.

[HeartsDesireEventing]

My upper level eventer went through a phase of having fluid build up in the extensor tendon sheath over one knee after competing cross country. I say ‘phase’ because although we did all the things - x-rays, ultrasounds, consults with other vets, shockwave - it did eventually just stop, not apparently due to anything we did or changed. He was never lame on it, but as a previous poster said, it sure looked ugly when he came off course, although the fluid in his case would subside over the course of a week or so. I did give him some down time while we did the shockwave treatments, and then a gradual return to work and competing. Interestingly, it swelled up again our first cross country run back, and then never did it again - and he moved up to Intermediate later with no issues.