Laser Therapy was requested to treat Trauma to the Hock. The initial injury, a kick from a mare to the lateral aspect of the right hind leg, 1 inch below the hock. Initially presented with an open wound, infection and the formation of proud flesh. The wound was 3 months old. When I was asked to call to the horse he was on another course of antibiotics to try and control the infection. This horse was kicked by his stable companion out the field, a mare 10 years his senior.
Kicks often cause a visible wound. The problem is that a small, insignificant-looking break in the skin may be surrounded by a larger area of inflammation from the kick. You should expect kick wounds to be infected – the foot that caused the wound was in contact with the ground only a second earlier. Expect the wound to be quite deep – the kick compresses all the tissues and punctures through to the deepest extent that the hoof reaches.
Infections usually find it easier to multiply in bruised tissue, so an infected kick wound will incubate infection. When that infection includes anaerobic bacteria, which are able to multiply without oxygen, then the deep puncture wound with only a small surface hole provides ideal conditions.
It is vital that you keep your horse fully vaccinated, as even the smallest kick wound could prove fatal.
16th Jan 2016
17th Jan 2016
23rd Jan 2016
3rd Feb 2016
7th Feb 2016
Chronic wound setting: Treated 4-5 treatments 16th and 17th January 2016. Every second day for three days and twice a week until now.
This is the latest 25th Feb 2016
Revisited after 2 week (last laser session on the 25th Feb) as you can see from the photo galleries above the initial injury has dramatically advanced the power of healing with the use of KLaser.
