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Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 501
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Saturday, Apr 30, 2005 - 10:35 pm: |   |
Ok my question will be vague as the vet can't come out till Monday.. My mare is at a breeding / training barn to be bred and put time on her back.. I got a call today saying that she reared up on a fence and sustained a puncture wound on the inside of her front leg.. I,of course, went out to see her.. Her whole knee is pretty scarped up and sore looking the puncture wound is on the upper inside of the leg where I might say is the suspensory area, according to the diagram.... The trainer does not think its bad, all tho they put her on SMZ's and bute to be sure...She was very lame at first, a few hours later and bute, she is walking pretty sound.. My question is that it does not seem like an area that can sustain a puncture without going thru a vital tendon/ligament... Have you seen such injures where nothing was damaged..? I know we can't say as we don't know how deep the puncture is.. but I am thinking that it does not have to go very deep 1/8 '' to puncture something...am i right..??
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with SPOTS.. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 12727
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 8:10 am: | |
Hello Ann,
When you say the upper part of the leg, I think above the knee, which would not be a suspensory area (back of the cannon).
DrO |
Aileen
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Username: Sunny66
Post Number: 751
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 9:53 am: | |
Ann,
A trick my trainer taught me to determine the extent of the puncture wound is to shoot betadine into the hole, if it squirts back out immediately, it's not very deep, if it doesn't...well then it is what it is.
I know that doesn't answer your question, but thought it might help.
Good luck with your girl! |
Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 503
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Sunday, May 1, 2005 - 10:03 am: | |
Dr. O.. i mean the upper portion of the lower leg , under the knee on the inside of her leg...
There does not appear to be anything on the leg there but skin and tendons.. 
Aileen, thanks for the reply, unfortunately i was not there to do the first 'flushing'.. and did not think to do it when i arrived... Its just all to unnerving these '''fragile horses.. seems every time i turn around another horse is 'off'
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with SPOTS.. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 12731
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Monday, May 2, 2005 - 6:35 am: | |
Well Ann, with no more information than we have it is hard to say about your horse but in general horses injury themselves all the time, even in this area, yet heal without complications with good wound care.
DrO |
Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 510
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 3, 2005 - 8:48 pm: | |
Dr. O.. vet came out to look at the mare.. said we / i was lucky that the puncture is just above the splint bone.. I have had awful luck of late with sound horses, even tho I was not there for the check and to ask a ton of questions, I am feeling SO MUCH BETTER... thanks for your time and answers...
On the first day God created horses, on the second day he painted them with SPOTS.. |
