Tangle
30th Mar 2005, 09:17 PM
We booked Fifi in with the pysio about a month ago, but when she turned up Madam had lost a (very expensive :mad: ) shoe in the mud and so looked absolutely wrecked :(. So today was the repeat experience. She was little off on her left fore in trot and lateral work, and slightly sore in the right gluteal but nothing obviously major. Or so we thought :o.
Physio and vet turn up. Trot her up and agree she's looking much better than she did before. Back in box and give her a prod - very ouchy horse :(. Get her sedated and do the flexibility tests in the neck and pelvis. Her poll was good, but that was the only thing that was. The rest of her had just 10% of expected mobility :eek::eek:!.
The suspicion is that her front feet have been so sore she's been compensating through the rest of her body :(. 1/2 hour or so of H-wave treatment later and the estimate had gone up to 60-70%, so definite improvement, but poor girley :(. Hopefully now we're getting the feet sorted and getting this fixed she'll be all sorted and we can start getting her fit.
Next treatment is in about 3 weeks - no ridden work till after that. Good job she's well behaved on the lunge ;)
Physio and vet turn up. Trot her up and agree she's looking much better than she did before. Back in box and give her a prod - very ouchy horse :(. Get her sedated and do the flexibility tests in the neck and pelvis. Her poll was good, but that was the only thing that was. The rest of her had just 10% of expected mobility :eek::eek:!.
The suspicion is that her front feet have been so sore she's been compensating through the rest of her body :(. 1/2 hour or so of H-wave treatment later and the estimate had gone up to 60-70%, so definite improvement, but poor girley :(. Hopefully now we're getting the feet sorted and getting this fixed she'll be all sorted and we can start getting her fit.
Next treatment is in about 3 weeks - no ridden work till after that. Good job she's well behaved on the lunge ;)