| Archive for It's About The Horse The Free Forum for those Doing Parelli - and a whole lot More! "Anything forced and misunderstood can never be beautiful." Xenophon (430-355 B.C.), |
| appellativo |
Pat Rainer on abscessing, why and how to treathttp://hoofrecovery.blogspot.com/2009/09/abscesses-revisited.htmlThis was very interesting and seems to make sense to me. It makes me think that one of the horses I'm trimming may have an abscess somewhere by the way he holds his foot up and walks stiffly sometimes.... |
| Leah |
Hmmmm I don't think anything is ever that simple. |
| karmikacres |
From the link-
Does this resemble a founder stance? Yes it does. And a huge diagnositc mistake could have easily been made on this horse. Thankfully, I was certain it was an abscess and I was right. He was laying on the ground for 4 days before the rupture. I just allowed him to rest and the abscess to rupture and he gradually recuperated. It's been a long road for this poor guy. Due to the abscess, he foundered in all four feet. A full recovery has taken just over a year. ??????? Mike |
| appellativo |
go ahead, mike! I take it you don't think that a horse who is lame in one foot could overload the other feet causing damage? (me asking, not challenging) It DOES sound a little extreme a hypothesis in this case, but what do I know. I'm not committing either way... 
No, I don't think anything is ever this cut and dry but it was interesting to read, anyway. |
| jenlm |
i agree with leah. |
| Newfman |
BambiSorry, but just reading it is annoying. By the time I got to the fourth paragraph, my minds eye traveled back to when i was a little kid (ok, way back) and I remember seeing the scene in the movie Walt Disneys BAMBI.Bambi: Flower?....pretty flower? Thumper: No Bambi (laughing) that's not a flower! That's a skunk! Skunk: He can call me flower if he wants too! It all just seems so... ugh. "It's as simple as that!" Thank God someone finally figured it out! |
| toreolau |
the fact alone that his epiphany came from Ove Lind should set of some red lights. Ove Lind is the king of oversimplifying. |
| karmikacres |
OK, so explain to me the ruptures I have seen in the middle of the hoof wall.
Mike |
| Nashama |
I can;t get the site up, so was the abscess diagnosed by a vet? Only a vet can make that call, and if you look at the work of the likes of Dr Chris Pollitt, you will see often a horse will abscess after it's foundered.
A stiff gait can actually mean a lot of things. I have one here with torn pectorals, and another with a strained groin, never mind the third turning up battered and bruised with a little bark off. As No.2 is stress foundered from previous injuries we thought maybe it was founder, but investigation showed otherwise. The boys have had another party. 
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