Hamstring Injuries

Depends entirely on severity of the injury & how soon treatment was begun, after damage has been done - bit like that piece of string . A decent vet or physio/myofascial practitioner can be more specific.

Since when have horses ever had what one could comfortably call standard injuries?   OK, on a score of 1 - 10 severity, I'd suggest a '5' to require a fortnight of walking & swimming with twice daily sessions of careful stretching exercises, along with laser, ultra sound or equissage treatments as suggested by a specialist/operator . All resistence type training to be ceased untill fully healed (uphill, treadmill, water walker).

The dosage forum seems a weird choice to post a health problem but I guess that's because we don't have a health forum - mods??????????????????

thanks for the reply was very helpful. 

Atlantic Jewel tore a muscle in her rump ouch and she did it so easy!!!

Hamstrings were never talked about 15/20 years ago! Now every second horse has a hamstring problem? Depending on who you talk to. Seems to be the problem when you can't find a real one?

The only difference between now and 20 years ago is trainers have found short cuts to preparing a horse , water walkers, mechanical walkers ( walking like trained zombies) treadmills ( good if no rider lol) I know it's a nice change for a horse to work with no weight on his back but swimming should suffice imo, body workers? most soft tissue problems occur when the body has Not been conditioned properly , pre mixed feed etc. never heard of hammy's until the last 5years and treadmills were being used in the early eighties, maybe we weren't clued up enough in my teenage years.

Edited by Gay3 - 21 Mar 2019 at 1:09pm