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Urgent Requests - Horses in Need
Urgent needs arise from time to time and with your donations to FLTAP we will have the money needed to take care of a horse in need. One such urgent need was in 2007 with Another Crash. Read about him on our Success Stories page.
And then think about donating to our Barn Fund so you can be part of the effort to give a horse a second chance to be a winner!
Here is an Urgent Request for May 2008:
Shock Jock is a four year old gelding who was injured during a morning workout in February 2008. He suffered a 90% tear of his right front digital flexor tendon, requiring at least nine months of rehabilitative work if he ever hoped to be sound and pain-free for light flat work. Being a young, 16.1 hh, beautiful, gray gelding of sweet disposition, we felt that his prognosis was good if given the opportunity to heal correctly. We were offered a couple very generous therapies at discounted prices.
The first offer was to perform regenerative stem cell therapy. A minor procedure was performed to collect fatty tissue from his hindquarter area. The tissue was then shipped overnight to the laboratory in California where the stem cells were extracted and returned the following day to be injected into his tendon. The stem cells then become tendon cells which in turn create a stronger and more successfully healed tendon.
The second offer was for a GameReady Equine physical therapy unit. GameReady Equine is a machine that applies a dry cold and active compression therapy which can be used on a multitude of injuries, Shock Jock’s bowed tendon being one of them..
For four weeks we have been using the GameReady Equine in addition to the stem cell therapy and we can see major improvements in Shock Jocks’ tendon size; it is shrinking daily.
Although we have had these gracious donations, the procedure itself has still been a huge expense to us here at FLTAP. Devoting many hours each day for his treatment is extremely time consuming, and therefore very expensive. Any donations made on behalf of Shock Jock will be very much appreciated by FLTAP Staff, but mostly by Shock Jock. These treatments are improving his chances for a full recovery, which in turn will make him more adoptable.
