Causes of Horse Wobblers' Syndrome

Equine wobblers' syndrome can happen to any horse even without previous warning or health problems. This condition often prevent a horse from walking normally and unwilling to make short trot. A wobbling horse will suffer unsteady movement, which will eventually leads to uncoordinated footsteps. Even though this condition is not uncommon in horses and can happen without any previous signs, it is somehow worrisome watching your elegant horse feeling reluctant to move around or make short run.
Horse wobbling is not difficult to be detected even by the owner or rider. It affects everything about the animal, including his state of mind and physical condition. And regardless that this condition could happen to any horse sooner or later, nobody wants t see his horse in this uncomfortable condition. There are many known causes of equine wobblers' syndrome just as there are treatments to make the animal gets well as soon as possible. 

The very first clinical sign people check in horses suspected to be suffering wobblers' syndrome is their limbs. A weak limb is one of the most common causes of this condition and it is liable to happen to every horse, particularly competition horses. A horse with weak limbs will not be able to move straight or gait properly, but forced to stagger from one side to another obviously because of misplaced steps. The most embarrassing moment of equine wobblers' syndrome is when your horse crash when trying to trot as a result of weak limbs. 

Some horse owners will wake up one morning and discover their lovely horses are reluctant to rise to their feet unless helped by people around. This very sign has something in common with horse lameness because the symptoms are nearly the same, but wobbling horse can be treated easily than lameness. Other causes of horse wobblers' syndrome that can only be detected by Vet are spinal cord compression, vertebral canal narrowing and too much pressure on joints and ligaments.

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