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Shoe Wear, Level Correlation
September 1, 2002 | Posted in Shoeing, Therapeutic Shoeing

Q: I shoe Standardbred racehorses and I’ve been taught that if a horse is wearing his shoe down on one side more so than the other, then this is the side that needs to be lowered when it’s time to reshoe them. 


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The Best Of Two Founder Fighters

New shoe combines four-point and heart bar approaches against laminitis
By Pat Tearney posted on May 1, 2002 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
Bernard Pelletier knows there are no silver bullet cures when it comes to laminitis — not even the four-point, heart bar shoe combination he’s enjoyed considerable success with.
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Shoeing For A Living

A Cold Day in Horse Heaven

Lexington, Ky., horseshoer turned vet devotes practice to footcare
By Pat Tearney posted on May 1, 2002 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
It's a bright but cold Kentucky morning as I head out of Lexington in the direction of Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, where I’m to hook up with Scott Morrison for a highly unusual “Shoeing For A Living” day.
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Using Spring Shoes To Treat Sheared Heels

A shoe forged from a car’s leaf spring puts a damaged hoof in traction
By Robert Sigafoos posted on March 1, 2002 | Posted in Therapeutic Shoeing
Sheared heels is a colloquial term used to describe proximal displacement of the medial or lateral heel bulb when referenced to the opposite heel of the same hoof. It’s also often loosely used to describe proximal displacement of the coronet band anywhere cranial to the heel bulb up to the lateral or medial side of the toe (Figure 1).
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