The wonders of modern technology
After another day in the field Radar came in with almost all the filling gone and a general warm spot around the splint/check ligament area. I had a brainwave and ran into the house to ask SH where he keeps the optical pyrometer, which measures heat with a light beam very precisely. After putting a new battery in it, I took it outside to have a little play, not expecting anything too significant to come out of it.
But what an interesting result! I shone the little red laser beam onto the warm area and read the temperature off as I moved it from place to place. His leg had a ring about 8 cm wide of warmth. The outer 2cm was at 15 degrees. The next ring in was 16, then 17. The area of 17 degrees was still too wide to pinpoint whether it was the check ligament or the splint bone.
I firkled about a bit more, and I found an incredibly precise spot, no more than 5mm wide, if that, at 18 degrees - and it was on the bone! Hooray!!! If you add to that the fact that the warmest spot was not directly over the vein, but directly beneath his knee on the centre of the top of the splint bone, then I think, and certainly hope, that the splint is the problem.
Jazz is fine but the weather was foul so he got no work because I wasn't about to hack out in it and I don't think he's ready to do circles on a softer surface.
And you should have SEEEEEEEN the state the furrball came in in tonight! He looked like a pile of wet hay :-))))
C
posted by cptrayes @ 7:02 PM
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Geez misses you are most resourcefull with these gadgets!
Its all sounding good though :-)
You should SEE what gadgets you end up with after 30 years with an enquiring engineer!! A housefull! Even the central heating runs off the field, and the wind turbine lights the house :-))))
Amazing. What more can I say? Sounds good so far for Radar. I'll keep thinking positive thoughts.
Furball must have been having a grand time rolling about. He must look adorable all decked out in his sogginess....*lol*
Sounds much better.
Mine, it seems, has damaged his tendon sheath, although no damage to the tendon, which is good news. But it is taking longer than I thought it would. Luckily my horse doesn't seem too worried about being in, and I can take him out for some grass.
When I muck out the stable I tie him up outside,and before we got into a routine he used to keep pushing me with his nose and trying to march off to the gate - plainly asking to go out to get some grass.
He was only turned out in the field so I have no idea how he did it. He doesn't have shoes on at the moment either. I can only guess that as it was a wet and windy day he was galloping around and messing about.
Jean he was a mobile pile of wet hay, which turned itself upside down on the dry surface of the barn and wriggled it's furry bottom fit to bust!
Tendon sheath? Not so bad but still upsetting. Can I suggest MSM because my friend's horse's ddft tear was fixed but the sheath was a problem for another year. He's fine on MSM, short striding without it.
C
Judith, just had a thought, not that it will help at all. But I had a mare once who cut into her tendon through a WOOF boot with shoes on. Is it possible that your fellow struck himself with an unshod foot and damaged the tendon sheath that way?
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