Re: [AskAVet] Pulled Hamstrings

I got a horse in for training several years ago that had one torn hamstring and had that same foot slapping gait with that leg.  Unfortunately hers had happened some time previously (with another trainer who then lied to the owner) and the blood clot that formed had calcified to some extent and was unlikely to dissolve completely.  The local vet said that he'd had several over the years that, with massage, heat therapy and a long recovery time were sound for using (he's a roper so they get used pretty hard).  The mare that came to me did improve somewhat and was finally sold to a buyer willing to continue with therapy with her and at last report she was sound for trail riding but still did slap her one hind foot down somewhat.  Her tear happened, apparently, from neighbor reports, when she was in the round pen and the trainer had her sidelined and a foot slipped in damp footing and she went down with one leg splayed out to the side.  The vet said a
similar thing happened with one of his ropers....loop on the cow, went to turn the cow and the horse lost footing in one hind foot and the leg slid out to the side.

Dorothy
Colored Cowhorse Ranch
Lovelock, NV
www.coloredcowhorseranch.com
Docs Producer Leo, AQHA foundation bred perlino
Colonels Diamond Chex, APHA buckskin tobiano
Ima Streakin Doc, APHA bay tobi Doc Bar grandson
Muchacho Pintero, APHA sorrel tobi Doc Quixote grandson

--- On Thu, 9/1/11, starfishfarms <yahoolist@starfishfarms.com> wrote:

From: starfishfarms <yahoolist@starfishfarms.com>
Subject: [AskAVet] Pulled Hamstrings
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011, 7:23 AM

 

I've posted in a few groups, but thought someone here might have some insight ...

My horse was just diagnosed with bi-lateral pulled hamstrings (Fibrotic Myopathy.)

This is a video of his gait right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxB2MKwEeU

This is a photo of him:
http://www.starfishfarms.com/our_horses/sorting7_07_goodsm.jpg

My vet has only heard of one other instance of this bi-laterally, and it was a horse that was in a trailer wreck. I know of no trauma to my horse. He was always turned out alone, because he is blind on one side, but I've had to turn my other (quiet) gelding out with him for the past few months. The second horse is alpha with him, though submissive in herd normally. I wonder if the trauma happened with him running and turning him. (He is a reiner.)

I use this horse for novice cattle sorting (though I think I've only sorted with him @twice this year, in the Spring) and trail riding. I'm not an aggressive rider.

My daughter, a TB aficionado & eventer, has always said this horse (Gold Bar Vester) was "bred to be lame" ... for halter and not using. Do you think his breeding and/or conformation was a factor, or at least a hindrance to his healing process?

Does anyone have any experience with this? Outcome? Thanks,

Laurie Bayer

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