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Lori
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Username: Maggienm
Post Number: 133
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, Apr 9, 2006 - 2:27 am: |   |
I have been looking for a dressage prospect. The horse I am loking at now has hunter bumps and a thickness on the rear cannon bone. This is not a hard lump but more of a thickness? hard to explain, going across the bone and tendon, perhaps 2-3 inches wide. She is not lame right now.
How serious are hunter bumps? |
Lisa Suphan
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Username: Lovemytb
Post Number: 25
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, Apr 16, 2006 - 2:01 pm: | |
Hunter bumps? That sounds like a fancy way of saying shin splints! |
Lori
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Username: Maggienm
Post Number: 138
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, Apr 16, 2006 - 3:09 pm: | |
Lisa, well, I guess names can be misleading. By shin splints are you referring to the splints a horse can get on the cannon?
Hunter bumps are located apprx at the LS joint on the spine.
In general I think they are a result of too much stress from jumping or dressage.
Someone else could likely explain it better.
As it turns out she doesn't have them. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 15393
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Monday, Apr 17, 2006 - 7:22 am: | |
We have a brief anatomical study on hunter bumps with comments on significance see, References » Equine Illustrations » Leg Anatomy and Conformation » Sacroiliac Joint and Hunter Bumps.
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