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I have to chime in with a 'me too' here.  I have a lovely 7 yr old 
gelding who started being not quite right a few months ago.  A hind leg 
would sort of collapse under him at random, but usually when he was 
tired, and he wasn't interested in going out to play, which is a real 
bell-ringer because my horses love going out for rides.  I had to wait 
until a few weeks ago to have a really good vet see him, because we 
don't have any really good vets here. Meanwhile, I had people telling 
me that it was the food, the wrong exercise, you name it.

When Jack saw him, Nazeer was off on every single leg in alternation as 
he was longed and trotted. Every single bloody leg, depending on 
direction, curve, whatever. We x-rayed the hocks and the culprit, while 
still minor, was there and  he will be infiltrated, given a week's rest 
and is on a strict no-deep-sand regimen for a few months.  Since 80% of 
the injuries in my horses (and the people around me who ONLY ride in 
deep sand) seems to be traceable to desert work where deep sand is the 
norm, I'm spending more and more time in the countryside where the 
footing is nice packed dirt.  AND it's shady in the summer!

Maryanne
Cairo

On May 1, 2005, at 10:08 PM, DreamWeaver wrote:

>   Until you get an x-ray done you won't really know, but there is 
> nothing you can do to fix the front end lameness until you fix what is 
> wrong on the back end, if that is what it is -- and a flexion test is 
> not guaranteed to tell you.  Some people might have thought my vet was 
> wasting my money doing the xrays on the hocks, when the horse had 
> passed the flexion test and was showing up off on the left front.  
> Maybe your friends vet has a lot of experience working with sport 
> horses and knows what he/she is doing in this case.  Or not, but I 
> thought I'd just throw this out there in case anybody else happens to 
> start experiencing some of these things with their horse.
>
> Karen
> in NV


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