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hind leg lamenes
I have a three yr old warmblood cross who is off on her right hind. I don't know what she did, there is no signs of injury. At the walk she is fine, but at the trot she is dragging a toe and just not using it properly.
She is coming up a bit short and may be slightly stabbing the ground, but mostly isn't using her full range of movement. I,m not sure what directon to go in as I am limited in what is available here. It has been three weeks, with a now a couple of weeks off with no difference. I have decided to put her a glucosamine supplement as it won't hurt her and am working her lightly. Walk and a bit of trot on the lunge line. I would like to know what part of her body may be affected. I don't think it is the hock, I wonder if it would be in the pastern or hip. Could the pelivis be out, could that cause that kind of movement?
She is coming up a bit short and may be slightly stabbing the ground, but mostly isn't using her full range of movement. I,m not sure what directon to go in as I am limited in what is available here. It has been three weeks, with a now a couple of weeks off with no difference. I have decided to put her a glucosamine supplement as it won't hurt her and am working her lightly. Walk and a bit of trot on the lunge line. I would like to know what part of her body may be affected. I don't think it is the hock, I wonder if it would be in the pastern or hip. Could the pelivis be out, could that cause that kind of movement?
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Permalink Reply by Linda Weldon on
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When you back her up does she still drag the toe then? If so it is most likely a stifle probem. She has probably popped her stifle out of alignment and should see a chiropractor.
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Permalink Reply by Angelica Pasluko on
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Well, I haven't backed her up, but when I move her around and she moves her hip she does drag it a bit, which I think is almost the same. I'm off to work right now but will check it out this eve.
thanks , I will try to find one here, I know there is a woman who does massage and may well do chiropractic also, I will phone her. Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Jackie Thomas on
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Okay, the horse I was leasing until last week had the EXACT,and i mean exact same thing happen to him! It was his hind right and he dragged it a little bit and it happened after he was taken to 3 shows in the span of a month and half, which we thought is why he went lame as it was far too much for him. He was lame for a month and once he stopped limping we were so happy, but we knew we had to take it super slow as we didn't want to worsen whateevr happened. About a week and a half later, we decided to get the vet out because every time we got on him, something just didn't feel right. We had noo idea what was going on because the vet did reflex tests and nothing came up. He did other tests but I can't quite remember what they were. He said that there was nothing that he noticed that was wrong with him, because he wasn't limping anymore. He sujested that we inject his hawk, so we did and $460 later, theres no change. We still don't know what happened and the lameness was one of the reasons i have stopped leasing him as he just doesn't feel like the same horse anymore. I sincerly hope your horse gets better and you figure out what the problem is soon and are able to fix it! :) good luck!
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Well, Hopefully this will get better. She is only three and I only JUST started riding her. She may have done something while galloping around with the other horses.
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Permalink Reply by debbie on
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If it has been three weeks without improvement you really need to have the vet check her out.I know it can be costly,but in the long run it might be the cheapest route.
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Yes, I agree, I have him coming. I'm just not sure how his horse lameness diagnosis is. But we'll see
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Permalink Reply by Katherine T on
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my friend takes lessons and her sister rides a pony who has "weird" hind leg movement. the instructer said that he just had weird hip conformation. it was just something that connected to his buile. the dragging the toe thing is wierd though. you said that there was no obvious sign of injury? my horse was lame and there was no heat of swelling. we think that she had a stone bruise. if you haven't gotten it checked out by the vet or an experianced horseperson then i sujest you should. the vet may be expensive but catching the problem before it develpoes into something serious is well worth the money. i hope this was of some help!! let me know how it goes!!
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Haven't figured it out yet, the vet is coming
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Permalink Reply by Becky-Lou Kogstad EqTPM on
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I would be inclined to have the farrier out and make sure there is no issues with the foot. Is she tight in the hamstring area? could be some shortening of the muscles, ( which causes restricted ranage of motion)stretching and slowly working her over some ground poles to strengthen might help. Did this come on suddenly? Or after a big event? have you noticed a slow progression? What discipline do you ride? Have you changed farriers or shoeing rx? New tack? Is she stalled at night or left out? Is she more sore if she has been standing/resting, or after exersize? or does it lesson?
Sorry lots of questions, as a myotherapist, it is important to have a history to try to identify the issue.
Hope all works out
Becky-Lou EqTPM
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I had only just ridden her 4 or 5 times. No farrier has looked at her and she doesn't have shoes on and I checked with hoof testers, no abcess from what I could tell. The vet went on holidays. I had a fellow look at her yesterday who does body work on horses. I'm not sure what he calls it, it is none traditional, energetic mostly. Touch for health sort of. Turning muscle systems on and off etc aligning using no or very little pressure, letting the horse do it. What I think happened was I was in a horsemanship clinic *colt starting* and the guy was puting a bit of pressure on her and the footing was quite loose and she slipped a few times (twice). So I said whoa , I don't want my horse to get hurt, it's not worth it to me. He did and was fine about it and the rest of the weekend was fine. She seemed a bit off after the weekend when I went home. One of those "Is she off or not!" Then she had a few days off and it was worse and then had a few weeks off and was no better, slightly worse if anything. This guy said that her( let me get this right) femur? from the stifle up was twisted a bit, putting pressure on the next joints and into her sacriiliac? and her pelvis. and of course the stifle. He had some students with him so was explaining everything and said here(to them) feel the stifle, you can feel the v and them feel the other side. So I'm like wait I'm been trying to feel differences in her all along!! so he said here feel this and the one stilfle was actually lower and turned out and bit. I was surprised, so, hopefully all will work. I have to give her 72 hrs and then no riding or anything for at least a month, all though he said I could pony her and uphill would be good. He felt she should be fine but it was a good jolt and will need time to stay where it should be. So she's getting arnica again and we'll se in a day or two. When I took her home and backed her out of the trailer she moved much better and lifted the leg better than she had been. I have my fingers crossed.
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Did this fellow do any muscle work? If the stifle is being "held out", it could most definatley be muscle restriction. You yourself can massage and work from the top of the hip down. Any where you feel any tightnesses, just apply a moderate amount of pressure and hold for 30secs to a minute. Any type of massage techniques will bring circulation to the area. Holding the "tightness" will help to break down the muscle fibres that are "clumped up" so to speak, and allow the muscle to return to its normal range of motion. Before you start to pony her uphill, I would realy make sure her range of motion is normal, (to you) what you are used to seeing her move. The last thing you want to do at this point is strengthen a disfunction in the muscle. If you still feel she is "off" I would keep her routine to in hand walking and keep a close eye on her if she is turned out. Rehab(deal with the issue) and then rebuild!
I would reccomend to have your farrier come out and have a good look just to rule out any stone bruising, or other issues. Some times abcesses, are sneaky and are hard to detect. I realy wished I lived closer to you, I would be there in a jiffy to help you any way I could.
Becky-Lou
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Permalink Reply by P.Ann Turner on
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Hello there,
This sounds like your horse may have slipped in the field and jerked the hip out and also jammed the pelvis up against the spine. This creates a nerve pinch and makes the horse drop the leg instead of travel smoothly forward. You can check my website if you are interested in treatment, we do structural alignment - which is a different technique with the same results as Chiropractic work, and deep tissue massage to help it hold better. Cheers, Ann.
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