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I'd love the vets to join in, because I still respectfully disagree 
with you. My mare did come home from a ride where she got her back leg 
twisted in a submerged log on a ride. It was treated aggresively, but 
it remains unchanged to this day. (3 years later) I think the important 
distinction here is calling a spade a spade. A winpuff is not some 
swelling, it isn't stocking up. It is a round swelling not unlike a 
half golf ball. Some smaller, some larger. NO information I have read 
indicates that a true windpuff (and not typical injury swelling), is 
reversible. Not even the vet. Merck manual. I'm a fanatic about my 
mares as well. They aren't disposable, they are my partners and I do 
everything to keep them healthy and happy.
Thankfully we all can agree that a windpuff is cosmetic and not 
something you have to worry too much about. I did a great deal of 
research when my mare was injured because I wanted to fix it, but 
learned that I can't do that, just manage it. BTW, you can put boots on 
and at the end of the ride, it will be gone, only to fill back up as 
soon as the boot comes off. It hasn't gotten larger even with frequent 
pounding on asphalt. I don't have a choice, asphalt has to be ridden on 
out here to connect trails.
Tiffany
On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Ridecamp Guest wrote:

> Thank you for joining the discussion of wind puffs. Always good
> to get more than one perspective. Regarding your question about
> chronic versus acute wind puffs, consider this: Let's say you have
> a horse in your corral with perfect clean legs. No blemishes, 
> swellings or defects of any kind. During the night, he injures 
> himself, and you wake up the next morning to find
> a wind puff (which is a slang term describing a local,contained
> filling on either side of the upper portion of the fetlock joint.
> The term is not a specific diagnosis and can be used to refer to an 
> old or new one) on one of his legs. This would be a new, or acute, 
> "wind puff" the cause of which, and nature of which is yet to be 
> determined. This as opposed to a
> 10 year old horse you are considering buying that you notice
> has wind puffs and the owner assures you they have been there
> for years and have never bothered him. Those would then be
> chronic (and I like Heidi's term, adaptive changes) wind puffs,
> and not likely to change.


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