Articles Tagged with ''Chronic Laminitis''

Tackling Laminitis

While much has been learned about laminitis over the past 25 years, it's still critical to evaluate each horse
While much has been learned about laminitis over the past 25 years, it's still critical to evaluate each horse.
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Video Reviews

These reviews give insight into videos worth viewing in two categories: professional farrier category for those wishing to learn more about shoeing ideas, and the horse owner category for those wanting to better understand corrective shoeing ideas.


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Tufts Delves Into Drafts

Tightly focused event delivers big on big horses
If you wanted to know more about shoeing draft horses or other large breeds and weren't in attendance at a recent seminar held at the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Mass., you missed a great opportunity.
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Vet's Corner

Glue-On Shoes Best For Realinging Horses With Chronic Laminitis

This proven method avoids the trauma of pounding nails and allows for precision shoe placement — if you follow a few principles

CHRONIC LAMINITIS challenges veterinarians and farriers to improve function in a foot with substantial, possibly permanent structural changes. Chief among these is displacement of the third phalanx (P3), which is responsible for the hallmarks of chronic laminitis: chronic lameness, recurrent foot abscesses and abnormal hoof wall growth.


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Step-By-Step Approach To Dealing With The Laminitic Foot

Equine veterinarian Scott Morrison says systematic approach offers best hope for the horse

If there's one issue that baffles farriers and veterinarians, it’s how to deal with laminitis. Farriers find it hard to distinguish between the tested methods of treatment for laminitis and the people who are out there trying to sell a quick-fix solution to this debilitating problem.


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Vet Won't Phone In A Heart Bar

But George Platt says that these shoes, properly applied, are a vital part of treating laminitis
George Platt has a well-earned reputation for getting good results in treating laminitis with a regimen that includes using heart bar shoes. He also has at least one hard and fast rule about heart bar shoes.
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Research Journal

This experimental study examined the effects of dorso-palmar and medio-lateral hoof imbalance on intra-articular pressure and fluid distribution in the coffin joint. Cadaver limbs were loaded in a hydraulic press to simulate vertical forces generated by standing and walking.
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