Apple and Stringhalt

We had a good weekend, Julian has taken photo's and been very busy up dating everything on to the website. I managed to paint the superficial muscle on to Lotus some off them are a bit wobley because of the heat and flies, but I think we can appreciate how amazing the horse is and the different ways the muscles work. Next to do is the deep muscles these are much more intricate, so will need a very cool fly free day for those.

Today I started to work Apple again as her owner has gone back to work. When I was first asked to work Apple she had very bad stringhalt confirmed by M. le Normande, in the same leg she had a very bad case of a light senstive form off mud fever. She was put on a course of Phenytoin ( a drug currently used to treat epilespy)and some blue cream for the leg for 6 weeks but this do not seem to do it, at the end of the course Apple was seen by the osteopath (Eloise) who manipulated the lumbar area and all most as if by magic the string halt has gone it has taken a few more weeks for things to really setle but the out come is fantastic especaily as the owners had been advised if the medication did not work the alternative would be cuting the extensor tendon! M. le Normande had been on the right path with the drugs as it was indeed a problem with the nervous system which has also comprimised the imumity in that leg hense the mud fever.

Now I am working on building the weaker side up and the changes in Apple's behavior have also been noticable she was quite excitable and the only horse I have ever meet who prefered to be brushed on her belly than her back, now she is calm and likes to brushed every where.
We have tried everything to get rid off the "mud fever" but it comes and goes, the sun seemingly making it worse, I hope with time Apple will be able to help fight it off untill then we are hoping the magic cream Camrosa will help.

In this blog I have changed the horses name.