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Re: [RC] Splint bone removal - Don HustonHello Lynette,I bought a 4yo Arab from the track. He had medial (inside) splints on both fronts. They were cold (fused, healed) and he was sound. After 4-5 years of slow 50's barefoot and using boots the RF splint suddenly started getting bigger. I don't know if he kicked it or what but it was soon the size of half an egg on the inside of his leg. Looked like hell but he was never lame. I had it xrayed, the vet said it looked "bad" whatever that means. I sent the xray to an expert at Alamo Pintado and he said he could remove the boney growth so it would not irritate the tendons but it might come back ($2500). He did not recommend removing the splint bone on an endurance horse because it helps support some part of the knee. We resumed our slow 50's for 2-3 years until June'08 when I dislocated my shoulder tailing up a hill....ugh. By that time the area directly below the splint would fill after a 50 but the horse trotted sound and it didn't seem to bother him. It bothered me tho....so I searched the net and decided to try a product called "Splintex Gold" http://www.rrvp.com/jacksinc/splintexgold.htm . In July'08 I started applying Splintex Gold per the instructions, 3 days on, 2 days off. Sometimes I would miss a week then start the routine again. By Sept I could ride again so we would just go hack a few miles. By Feb'09 the mud season was over, my shoulder was fine so we started riding 6-8mi a day 2-3 days a week. We have not done any 50's yet but lots of hacking and training around home including several 20+mi days. I purchased 12oz of Splintex Gold and have used over 8oz to date. I have been putting it on both splints. Today I did it and the old LF splint that was not reinjured has reduced by 50% overall. The "bad" RF one has also reduced over 50% in height and maybe 20% in diameter. The area below does not fill anymore. Overall the RF splint looks much better and I will continue using the Splintex Gold until the 12oz is gone. If the splints continue to shrink then I will probably buy more and continue until ??? Might work for you instead of surgery. Don Huston At 10:19 AM 5/2/2009 Saturday, you wrote: Has anybody had experience with excessive remodeling of bone post surgery for splint bone removal? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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