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Lucy, I don't want to bum you out anymore than you already are, but my own 
personal experience with a bowed tendon (front leg) wasn't good.  I had a 
very well built Missouri Foxtrotter.  He was my "first" endurance horse 
(poor guy!!).  Anyway we just did LD rides and very slow at that.  He also 
was a horse that was considered "hot".  I don't know if that had anything to 
do with the bowing of the tendon, but anyway when I discovered the bowed 
tendon I tried the confinement and leg wrapping (both things that my vet 
recommended) and the bow went down after about 9 months, but he never 
recovered in my mind that I would risk doing endurance with him.  I 
eventually sold him to a very light weight trail rider and that was 8 years 
ago- he's 24 now and still being ridden, but not doing endurance.  BTW the 
bowed tendon never did re-appear!!
DeAnn





> From: Lucy Chaplin Trumbull <elsie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [RC]   Future prospects for bowed tendon/pulled suspensory?
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:57:40 -0800
>
> Today I'm having a bad day and could use some moral
> support. Things seem to come in globs and right now
> both my horses are out, one with a pulled suspensory/
> strained tendon (front leg) and the other with a newly
> diagnosed, but ~6 month old bowed tendon (back leg).
>
> The pulled suspensory/strained tendon was diagnosed
> as soon as it reared its ugly head and we're now four
> months into the rehab program. She seems to be coming
> along nicely with no relapses.
>
> The more recently diagnosed bowed tendon (back leg)
> in the other horse is what's causing me to be bummed.
> Admittedly, he hasn't been on a proper rehab schedule
> until now, although I've been eyeing that leg suspiciously
> for many months and taken it easy on the occasional times
> I have ridden him. He was also on limited turnout for the
> last few months. Right now, he's confined and when I went
> out this morning, the leg was puffy. He's an antsy horse
> and not the type to take confinement very well and in
> bleak moments, I despair of him ever recovering properly.
>
> So, to my question:
>
> What experience do any of you have with bowed tendons
> and horses going back into work successfully after
> having such an injury?
>
> Am I dreaming? Or will both these horses forever be
> relegated to "pleasure trail" horses, making sure we
> never overstretch them or go more than 10 miles or so...?
>
> Will both horses always have a weak spot in their respective
> legs, meaning that they will never stand up to distance work?
> (I'm not talking about top tenning here, just finishing
> mid-back pack on 50s... During rides, we don't do much
> speed work, but do seem to spend a lot of time going up
> and down hills in the canyons/mountains.)
>
> <sigh>
>
>
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