Opinions/Experience dealing with this???

[Faster horses]

There sure appears to be bone change, doesn't there?
What do they think? Do they know what caused it? Will he be okay?

Keeping my fingers crossed!

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

No there's no bone change. I seen that for myself on xray. Everything you see is fluid. Even the knot on the side. It's a pocket of fluid. Plus fluid build up in other places in the tendon sheaths.

He'll be ok. Just gotta get all the swelling gone. He said, think of it as a minor twist to your ankle or an over extention.....then doin it again in a week's time.....then doin it again in another weeks time. You can still walk....without a limp, there's minor discomfort because the tendon's have been stretched beyond where they should stretch. It'll take some time for that to heal. Even tho on ultrasound the only thing that shows up is fluid build up....on a cellular level there is minor tearing that occurs. Those tears hafta heal. The only way you could see the damage that's occured is under a microscope.

Fluid in there is the bodies way of cushioning things. But....on a horse...there's no muscles that far down on the leg. This fluid contains proteins that are larger than the body can reabsorb quickly. It takes longer to reabsorb, so the proteins hafta break down to be reabsorbed. The sweating helps with that process.

[Faster horses]

Whew!!! What a lesson. So he overextended somehow, at sometime
and this is the result? But he'll be ok...double whew!!!

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Right. So we'll hafta watch it in the future....making sure we keep arthritis and such from settling there. Which the laser is supposed to help prevent as well.