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    Virginia Equine Imaging

    Has anyone used this place before? If so, what did you think? Were they as good as I hear they are? I am contemplating calling and setting up an appointment with them as I have a draft mare who has been lame for 8 days now, no relief, no changes and no improvements. We think it is an abscess but nothing has come of the soaking, packing the hole the vet dug to look for the abscess with ickthamol, and wrapping has helped.
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    Yes, I've used them plenty of times for lots of different things: pre-purchase exams, scintigraphy, lameness diagnoses, injections, pretty much the whole gamut. My experience there has been uniformly positive. I've used Dr. Allen & Dr. Johns pretty much exclusively & have nothing but high praise for each. If I had a horse with a questionable lameness, it's the only call I would make.

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      Dr. Allen is very good (as the US Event Team vet, I would hope so!), and they certainly have all the latest equipment. I usually use Dr. Ian Harrison, however, as I can get just as good a diagnosis for 1/3 of the price. But certainly for a stubborn issues, VEI is a excellent place to go.
      Cherry Blossom Farm - Show & Field Hunters, Side Saddles

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        They are very very good and I have used them both for PPEs and as a second opinion for difficult or particularly concerning lameness issues. I have come across people who think the sun rises and sets in them and take everything Kent Allen says as gospel and, well, nobody is that good IMHO. I tend to use them as my second lameness opinion when it is necessary because they are darn pricey and it requires me to take a day off work to bring mine over there and my regular vet is a very good lameness vet as well - so they are not my first stop but they are usually my second stop when I think a second stop is called for (which is not often).
        There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.(Churchill)

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          Agree with the others, very good and very pricey. Is your horse 3-legged lame or just off? If just off, I would give her another week or two to pop the abcess before I'd start to worry.

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            Originally posted by fordtraktor View Post
            Agree with the others, very good and very pricey. Is your horse 3-legged lame or just off? If just off, I would give her another week or two to pop the abcess before I'd start to worry.
            She is 3 legged lame, unwilling to put any real weight on the right front hoof and when I watch her slowly make her way around, it brings tears to my eyes as you can tell she really hurts.

            I have had the vet out and he found a point on the outside that was VERY ouchy, she yanked her hoof away and slammed it down. He dug till I got uncomfortable with how deep he went without hitting anything. I packed the hole after soaking every night with ickthamol and a cotton ball, wrapped and a duct tape boot. Have been doing this every night for 8 days, look all over the hoof each time for any points of an abscess but still nothing. We have taken x-rays, again, there is two tiny "spots" that we can't see causing so much pain. After the x-rays, leading her back to the barn, she started to drop and roll, something none of my horses have done while in a halter, 3 times in the yard and once in the isle way of the barn, so the vet, who was still here, treated her for colic as she was showing all the classic symptoms and we loaded her up with banamine and she stayed another hour. All we can figure for that is she was hurting so much it upset her, she started to breath rapidly, her pulse shot up and she colicked from it.

            So, that is where we are. The farrier, whom I trust, says because she came to me so damn short (and she was, on her toes), that could be causing problems and let gravel go up into her hoof. But again, there was nothing like that has shown up on the film. Even the vet can't say for sure if it is really an abscess were dealing with.

            Hence why I was asking about the lameness specialist.

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              I would give them a call, I've been using them for anything lameness related for the last 2 years and they've been great. In terms of cost, they don't seem to be that much more expensive than my regular vet and it will probably be cheaper than repeatedly calling your vet out over the next couple of weeks to try and help her. They also have higher tech equipment than most ambulatory vets (my mom always jokes that they have better equipment than even our human doctors ) and deal with unexplained lameness much more often than other vets.

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