I have a 15 year old tb who is ouchy in his hocks, bucks, rears, doesn't want to go forward. Just recently found out he was on hock injections before I bought him. I am pretty sure he needs them.. what really are hock injections???? Like what is it that they inject into the hocks? At this point i don't think legend or adequan will help that much.

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hwillm1977 :
Legend injections helped my old TB gelding a lot.

Legend was injected directly into his stifle joint, the owners before me had injected Cortisone repeatedly into his leg and caused some major issues by continuing to jump him at 4'9" even when he came up lame. They used the cortisone to hide his lameness.

BUT, he required a Legend injection every 30 days to stay able to walk. (he still wasn't rideable, and at that point was retired at 16 years old, we put him to sleep at 17 because he could no longer walk from the pasture to the barn). The injections cost about $189 each and once they stopped helping is when we let him go.

We also had an equine chiropractor work on my guy every two months, which helped a lot.

You should have x-rays done to determine exactly what is hurting him, some injections may help him be pain free but wouldn't actually be helping, they would just be masking the lameness which can make problems worse.

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