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I've been worried about tendon involvement from the beginning. 

 

To be more clear, the original swelling and lameness went away very quickly.  Currently there is no lameness nor is either area sore at all, even when briskly rubbed and squeezed (yuck).

 

Carla

 

On 9/3/08, Diane Trefethen <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Carla Richardson wrote:

... I have a horse in training that about 3 weeks ago had two
abscesses appear on his right fore.  One is at the bulb of his
hoof, and the other (which came out at the same time) is right
above his fetlock.

Kathy is right.  Have your vet see him.  Also, I would recommend having that leg ultrasounded.  Why?  The *action* that caused the abscessing might also have involved tearing a ligament or tendon sheath.  If so, if the infections heal up in say the next 2 months and you start conditioning again, the underlying damage could balloon into a bowed tendon or similar.  That happened to my horse because I had no clue about the possibility of tearing.  I had to lay him off for a year when the tendon bowed.


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