Oh bugger, I was just catching up and read she looked better, then got to this and my heart sank for you. I'm sure its going to be a very long 3 weeks for you all
I'm going to contact Rockley Farm and read up on barefoot rehab. At the moment I am in the middle of an active treatment phase and will continue with that for now. They are the experts, they are the ones who have seen and assessed the pony and I trust their expertise. But in the meantime I will do my research for plan B.
Making assumptions here, but if she was equally lame on all legs and the lameness is now obvious, that would suggest to me she has made progress in at least 1 leg/pair of legs for the lameness to now show. So perhaps its better news than her not changing at all or the lameness still being difficult to pick up on. And hopefully a more obvious lameness might make their job of diagnosing the issue, and therefore treatment, easier. I got very good at looking for silver linings when Jess was lame, staying positive is half the battle xThanks - My own vet wants to see her again in a week to inject again. Then Leahurst is on 6th Sept. I just don't know what to think really. The lack of any obvious pathology is good news but the lack of improvement in a very young horse who has had a shed-load of steroids, anti inflammatories, heart bar shoes and rest is bad news. They were planning to re-block on 6th to see if she was sound which seems highly unlikely given that the lameness is more obvious now. I would have hoped for her to be paddock sound by now. And she's still on meds. She's got another 2 days of those. Looking at the clinical report from Leahurst they were hoping I could start some in-hand rehab after 2 weeks but only if she was clearly making progress. Which she isn't.
Hmmm, is she on oral pain meds? if so I would leave her on lower dose/off them so she can feel what's going on, with it hidden they do silly stuff. I used a calmer to keep jess quiet in the field when she was bad, used wendals 'calmer' and it worked well If I could I would keep her in sick paddock but if not I would put her out and leave her out, they tend to do more silly stuff if they only get limited turnout.Silly pony keeps jumping out of the poorly paddock. 5 bar gate. I guess her feet cant hurt that much! So options are out with friends in main 4 acre field or stabled and stressed?? Havd left message with vet but WWYD?