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Re: [RC] Wind Puffs - heidiPlease Reply to: Bruce Weary bweary@xxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Hi Tiffany-- Thank you for joining the discussion of wind puffs. Always good to get more than one perspective. Regarding your question about chronic versus acute wind puffs, consider this: Let's say you have a horse in your corral with perfect clean legs. No blemishes, swellings or defects of any kind. During the night, he injures himself, and you wake up the next morning to find a wind puff (which is a slang term describing a local,contained filling on either side of the upper portion of the fetlock joint. The term is not a specific diagnosis and can be used to refer to an old or new one) on one of his legs. This would be a new, or acute, "wind puff" the cause of which, and nature of which is yet to be determined. My response to that one is that I consider the term "wind puff" to BE a specific term used to describe the chronic adaptive swelling, so I would not call the injury you describe a wind puff. I'd call it an acute swelling above the fetlock, and treat it accordingly... Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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