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Hi Guys, this is the story of my sweet Glory-Oreo. Some of you may remember her story posted on the main forum but I'll add exerpts of the last posts here for you.
My little mare we think got her leg caught under a fence and I found her with her leg dislocated from the hip socket. The round ligament of the femoral head that normally holds the femoral head within the acetabulum, completely ruptures or pulls away from its attachment, causing dislocation and this is what happened to her.
Depending on the severerity it usually Cannot be simply put back in. The two options are Euthanasia OR Femur Ostomy. The size of the horse is very important since the femur ostomy is mainly a dog operation.
After speaking with some forum members who went through similar, as well as long talks with 2 specialists at UGA and a surgeon in Washington state I opted to not do either of the options they gave me.
In the Femur Ostomy the ball is removed and the leg is left to set up a false joint out of scar tissue.
I decided not to have the ball removed and the result is the same....the place my Glorys leg was in healed by setting up scar tisssue and forming a false joint. Xrays were taken every 3 months on it.
This was/is a LONG process. :aktion033: Today she runs -on all 4 legs, bucks while running (but not normal looking) and plays and rears. She is doing absolutely wonderful today a year and a half after the injury.
She was confined to a stall for 3 months, I went out and moved her EVERY 2 hours for the first 2 weeks and YES at night also. I massaged her legs and moved her legs and we made a tilt table to ease her over on to for those 3 months. She is now on ground Flaxseed only. She was put on banamine for pain and took Gastro Gard, she was also on MSM and Corti flex. The first week she stood and would not move, the only time she moved was the day I went out there after deciding to put her down, sat down on the hay manger and started crying, she walked over to me and put her head against my back.
After thay day every day was planned around making her as comfortable as possible. She responded to what I chose to do and made regular improvements, in a month and a half she moved her tail again for the first time, in 6 months she bent and lifted that leg, in 9 months she could stand and bear weight on that leg so I could rasp the opposite hoof without laying her down.
IT is a LONG process but now seems like it did not take long at all, this was less than a year out of my life I gave to her, I brought her into this world it was my responsibility to do as much as possible to make sure she live dpain free or was put down.
I have to watch her weight and make sure both back hoofs are balanced, other that that she is fine today....WAY spoiled.
I have learned this is VERY common in miniatures. There are a lot of them out there with dislocated legs if you see one with a slight limp or it just looks like one side of their hip is sunk down a little this is the reason.
It is caused by trauma- injury or by stifle problems where the stifle is locked and a misstep is taken to force the ball out of the socket or the horse was born with cups too small or shallow.
Here she is now-see for yourself:
My Glory
Hi Guys, this is the story of my sweet Glory-Oreo. Some of you may remember her story posted on the main forum but I'll add exerpts of the last posts here for you.
My little mare we think got her leg caught under a fence and I found her with her leg dislocated from the hip socket. The round ligament of the femoral head that normally holds the femoral head within the acetabulum, completely ruptures or pulls away from its attachment, causing dislocation and this is what happened to her.
Depending on the severerity it usually Cannot be simply put back in. The two options are Euthanasia OR Femur Ostomy. The size of the horse is very important since the femur ostomy is mainly a dog operation.
After speaking with some forum members who went through similar, as well as long talks with 2 specialists at UGA and a surgeon in Washington state I opted to not do either of the options they gave me.
In the Femur Ostomy the ball is removed and the leg is left to set up a false joint out of scar tissue.
I decided not to have the ball removed and the result is the same....the place my Glorys leg was in healed by setting up scar tisssue and forming a false joint. Xrays were taken every 3 months on it.
This was/is a LONG process. :aktion033: Today she runs -on all 4 legs, bucks while running (but not normal looking) and plays and rears. She is doing absolutely wonderful today a year and a half after the injury.
She was confined to a stall for 3 months, I went out and moved her EVERY 2 hours for the first 2 weeks and YES at night also. I massaged her legs and moved her legs and we made a tilt table to ease her over on to for those 3 months. She is now on ground Flaxseed only. She was put on banamine for pain and took Gastro Gard, she was also on MSM and Corti flex. The first week she stood and would not move, the only time she moved was the day I went out there after deciding to put her down, sat down on the hay manger and started crying, she walked over to me and put her head against my back.
After thay day every day was planned around making her as comfortable as possible. She responded to what I chose to do and made regular improvements, in a month and a half she moved her tail again for the first time, in 6 months she bent and lifted that leg, in 9 months she could stand and bear weight on that leg so I could rasp the opposite hoof without laying her down.
IT is a LONG process but now seems like it did not take long at all, this was less than a year out of my life I gave to her, I brought her into this world it was my responsibility to do as much as possible to make sure she live dpain free or was put down.
I have to watch her weight and make sure both back hoofs are balanced, other that that she is fine today....WAY spoiled.
I have learned this is VERY common in miniatures. There are a lot of them out there with dislocated legs if you see one with a slight limp or it just looks like one side of their hip is sunk down a little this is the reason.
It is caused by trauma- injury or by stifle problems where the stifle is locked and a misstep is taken to force the ball out of the socket or the horse was born with cups too small or shallow.
Here she is now-see for yourself:
My Glory
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