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At a ride about four years ago, my horse had a small "tic" in one flank. 
The vet said it looked like a thump but since it was only in one side - 
it might not be thumps. He told me to let him eat and bring him back. 
Everything else was fine with a 60/48 CRI. When I brough him back it was 
gone and the vet said to go on he wasn't worried about it. 

Truman

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> <snork>  Yes, I've met Julie--she is a character.  :-)
>
> I tend to agree with her "take" on this--when you see a horse with a
> pulse of 44 that is eating, drinking, and doing everything else right
> but has a tiny tic in his flank, I think it is silly to pull, but
> instead to see what one can do to solve the problem.  I've let some go
> on over the years with no ill effects--my protocol has been to hold
> them at the check until the thumping resolves, have the rider either
> feed them a bit of alfalfa or get an appropriate e-lyte mixture, and
> then advise them to go on somewhat conservatively.  Every case that
> I've allowed to go on has finished uneventfully without continuing to
> thump.  
>
> Like any other problem, I think you have to look at this as a matter of
> degree, and look at it in the context of the whole horse.  If a horse
> is really prone to thumping, he may be in far less trouble with a mild
> tic in his flank than his neighbor is who isn't prone to it but has
> been overridden.  I know this is controversial in the veterinary
> community, but it just doesn't seem rational to me to go to extremes if
> the problem isn't extreme.
>
> Heidi
>
>
>  


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