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<blockquote data-quote="Stonewall Joe" data-source="post: 1840466" data-attributes="member: 41433"><p>isolate the issue to find out if it is a shoulder issue and not in the leg. If a shoulder issue is muscular and not a serious problem in a joint, you can usually find out by sweating the shoulders. We used to sweat a lot of shoulders, backs and hips when we raced harness horses if the problems were sore, stiff or shortened muscles. It's pretty easy to do. Get a large bottle of listerine and after brushing down his shoulder and front chest areas, soak the hair down pretty good with the listerine. Cover that area with a large piece of polyethelene sheeting and use some plastic blanket clamps or clothes pins to hold them in place, then cover the plastic with a couple layers of old blankets (we used "coolers" ) and finally put a horse blanket on him to hold in his body heat. We usually kept him tied for a while after this. Let him stand until you see sweat kind of running out for about 15 minutes or so from the heat he will create. Then move him around and see if he is still sore. If it's muscular, the heat will usually take the soreness out and his soreness will be alleviated quite a bit, and that issue can be dealt with pretty easily and with topical or light pain killing treatements, if it's structural it will require a more agressive treatment that will likely be ongoing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stonewall Joe, post: 1840466, member: 41433"] isolate the issue to find out if it is a shoulder issue and not in the leg. If a shoulder issue is muscular and not a serious problem in a joint, you can usually find out by sweating the shoulders. We used to sweat a lot of shoulders, backs and hips when we raced harness horses if the problems were sore, stiff or shortened muscles. It's pretty easy to do. Get a large bottle of listerine and after brushing down his shoulder and front chest areas, soak the hair down pretty good with the listerine. Cover that area with a large piece of polyethelene sheeting and use some plastic blanket clamps or clothes pins to hold them in place, then cover the plastic with a couple layers of old blankets (we used "coolers" ) and finally put a horse blanket on him to hold in his body heat. We usually kept him tied for a while after this. Let him stand until you see sweat kind of running out for about 15 minutes or so from the heat he will create. Then move him around and see if he is still sore. If it's muscular, the heat will usually take the soreness out and his soreness will be alleviated quite a bit, and that issue can be dealt with pretty easily and with topical or light pain killing treatements, if it's structural it will require a more agressive treatment that will likely be ongoing [/QUOTE]
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