PSSM2 Symptoms in Horses
Symptoms of Exercise Intolerance
If your horse has symptoms of exercise intolerance, you can't manage your horse's condition without a diagnosis. You and your veterinarian need to work together.
Have you noticed any of these symptoms in your horses?
- Apparent Pain
- Cinchiness/Girthiness (reacts to being saddled)
- Muscle wasting (most obvious in hindquarters)
- Localized muscle wasting (small divots that could look like kick marks)
- Shifting lameness
- Rope walking (one leg in front of another on centerline)
- Shortened gait (limited movement of hindquarters)
- Bunny hopping (rear legs brought forward together at canter)
- Cross firing or disunited canter
- Hitch in the trot
- Heavy on the forehand
- Trouble picking up correct lead in back
These symptoms may all be related and linked to a disease known as PSSM2 or MFM, a subtype of PSSM2.
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