sacroiliac help

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As i have posted before my mare has sacroiliac damage, we think a weankess then having a foal damaged the pelvis, but thats done now, has anyone got a horse with sacroiliac damage? the vet has talked about an intravenus acid injection then working her straight away to see if we can keep her sound, any info greatfully recieved

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sorry but I don't know anything on it. but you could have a qualified/chiropracter vet check her back out, that would probably help. My mare had her LS (lumber sacroil) joint out in her back, wich the chiro said is actually farely common, and after we had him out she was sooooo much better. Is your mare a Dales? how old is she? did she already have these probs when you got her?

[felix]

id deff get an opinion from a good mctimothy chiro.felix was written off by vets with suspected sacroilliac damage 3 years ago....same vets you use id think.
i recently had a good chiro out who disagreed with vets comepletely and did some treatment with him...within an hour he was walking sound and tracking up for first time since the vets had written him off....she said he'd badly damaged the muscle instead and iv ridden him since and hes now fine......
id never believe 100% what vets say esp when it comes to muscle and pelvis areas as seen lots of cases where a chiro sorts it and vets were stumped.

[SuzieP]

I'd echo felix's advice I think. It's worth getting a good chiropractor out to get a second opinion before making any decisions about further treatment.

When you say an acid injection, do you know what that is. Is it hyaluronic acid? Bea had an injection of this into his arthritic fetlock and it was very effective indeed.

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also just wanted to say that a lot of local vets don't really know that much about horses in that sense. most good chiropractors are also vets-- they know much more that other vet as my experience.

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yes shes a dales mare, she is 10, i cant say if she has this problem when we brought her all i can say is she used to be nappy, miss behave, run backwards etc, the stud thought having a foal and time off would calm her down and change of home and owner, when i brought her and was having dressage lessons ready to compete she said Millie dragged her self round rather then using her hind quarters, one day she would be fine, then the next you would do the same and she have proper temper tantrams, run backwards or just refuse to move (no rears and no bucks) then the final straw was out hacking coming home she was being extremly nappy, thats when we knew something was wrong, we never let her get away with anything or blamed her miss behaviour on anything but you have to stop and think why, she had so many options to get people off but never did, this more mare has spent so many hours and nights at the vets being poked with injections here there and everywhere, feathers shaved off, the bad weather is here and at the mo in the worst she is kept in as we cant afford for her to slip and slide, we are just giving her time off through winter then we will look into getting her back

[mrsp]

James (my old TB) had this problem and I used to call a lady named Chris Caden-Parker out - 'google'her she has a lot to do with the eventing teams. She used to do an amazing rugby tackle type movement and click all was well again. After he had her visit a couple of times during a period of around 2 years it seemed to do the trick and he was ridden/jumped etc until his untimely demise at the age of 27. Chris is very approachable and may know of someone in your area (last time I heard she was Sevenoaks way)