The injections helped initially because they suffused the area with steroids, reducing inflammation and allowing her to continue working soundly for a brief period. This was the “aha!” moment, she says: “Without the MRI I wouldn’t have known about the collateral ligament injury so, because the owners were willing to do the MRI, I was not only able to confirm my diagnosis of the bone bruising and remodeling but I was also able to see the reason for it.”Ĭhanel had likely been compensating for the collateral ligament injury by bearing more weight on one side of her foot, creating the bruising in the coffin bone. “But, on the opposite side of the foot, she also had a collateral ligament injury.” Collateral ligaments are located on either side of most joints. “The first was mild coffin bone bruising and remodeling in the area we had been looking at radiographically,” Schlachter says. The MRI showed that Chanel actually had two injuries to her left front foot.
We recommended an MRI so we could look at the area more deeply.” “We nerve-blocked (used local anesthesia to numb and pinpoint the painful area) her foot, then we X rayed the area, and the X rays showed some mild abnormality in her coffin bone. “The case was pretty routine,” says Schlachter. ACVSMR, who founded and designed Circle Oak Equine Sports Medicine’s rehabilitation and fitness programs and also founded Animals In Motion, a practice that focuses on integrative sports medicine, rehabilitation, and injury prevention. However, the injections ultimately proved to be ineffective at keeping Chanel completely sound and comfortable, so she was referred to Carrie Schlachter, VMD, Dipl. Her owner and veterinarian managed this with routine coffin joint corticosteroid injections for about two years. ChanelĬhanel, a 10-year-old Quarter Horse mare competing in Western pleasure, had been struggling for years with a nagging intermittent left front lameness. We’ll share each one’s diagnostic challenges, rehab modalities, and recovery details.
#THE JOURNEY BACK FULL#
To see what effective rehabilitation looks like, we found three real-life examples of equine athletes that made full recoveries from their injuries.
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