Stifle Injury?

["Rachel Ward" <rward@peppersnet.com>]

Hi all,

    I had a yearling QH which I was showing in halter classes that injured his stifle.  He apparently slipped in the mud while playing a bit too hard, and dislocated it??  It's hard to remember but they actually said he was "stifled" I think.  Anyway, we took him to the vet and she "fired" it or "burned" it with some sort of acid type stuff.  This was supposed to work because the burning tightened the tendon.  I had to keep him in a 10 x 10 stall where he couldn't move around for about 6 weeks to a month and do daily hydrotherapy on his legs because he stocked up so bad.  I don't know whether people still do this with stifle problems anymore, and I may be describing this wrong- I was only a kid when all this took place.  The colt went on to be a ranch horse and was never lame in that leg again.  Rachael