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Re: [RC] Splints - rides2farIf you look in this month's Endurance News you'll see Josie Whelen & Southern Rock, 50 mile junior champions at the NC. Rock had a big splint when he started endurance at 5 ? years old. He did several rides with it, then after a while started being a bit lame on that leg at times. The splint was several years old. We got it x-rayed and it turned out there was a loose piece that was shifting and rubbing the ligament or whatever. He had surgery when he was 8 maybe? and the vet removed it. I would have thought it would have been flatter after that but it got *bigger*. He had to wear a boot over it but it caused no other problems. He did a few rides here and there, was sold a couple of times as one owner got divorced, the next went to college, then Josie Whelen got him and he's tearing up the trails at 17. :-) I don't know if surgery would help your horse or not, but it seemed to fix Rock long after the fact. Angie On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:38:11 -0800 Don Huston <donhuston@xxxxxxx> writes: I bought my current enduro horse from the race track as a 4yo. He is 10 now. He came with a splint on each front that did not seem to bother him. The left one has stayed the same all these years. Sometimes the splint on the right leg gets bigger and smaller but does not bother him when I squeeze it. Sometimes that leg will stock up after a 50 and once in a great while he will put the right leg down in such a way that it hurts him for just that step and he gets off it right away, usually we are walking when it happens. If it is a splint that won't heal can it be fixed and if so how? Thanks for any suggestions. Don Huston <donhuston@xxxxxxx> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Angie McGhee http://www.lightersideofendurance.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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