While much has been learned about laminitis over the past 25 years, Andy Parks maintains the picture is still incomplete. He told attendees at last winter’s American Association of Equine Practitioners meeting that treatment techniques lag well behind the understanding of the pathophysiology of this disease.

In an experimental trial, researchers at The Ohio State University used a force plate to evaluate kinetic variables as indicators of forelimb lameness in 32 horses exercised in hand at a trot.

Ric Redden has reopened his equine podiatry practice in Versailles, Ky., and will treat diseases and injuries associated with the equine foot on a strict outpatient basis.

Ric Redden, the equine veterinarian from Versailles, Ky., says before you can learn anything from taking the hoof pulse of a horse in a laminitis exam, you have to know what a non-elevated pulse feels like.