In a natural state, if wild horses exceed the range of functional asymmetry, they become part of the food chain. In our domestic world, without judgement, we tend to breed any-and everything, and discard or cull nearly nothing. By our management practices , it is my contention that we put into the genepool many horses whose asymmetries go beyond the balance tolerance point and create pain, performance deficit, subclinical lameness and eventually overt lameness. The problem is compounded by many factors. These include: inappropriate riding, inappropriate trimming, inappropriate shoeing, inappropriate musculoskeletal manipulation, inappropriate saddling and inappropriate veterinary procedures. - Dr. Kerry Ridgway, Low Heel/High Heel Syndrome pg. 369 Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot. These photos are of a Warmbloods foot taken over a span of 4 1/2 months. These corrections werent begun as a result of lameness. She was going just fine in Dressage training. She wasnt sore until after the last photo was taken. This only lasted a few days. At that time the trim interval was lengthened from two weeks to three weeks. Shes been fine and done well in shows since. The last time any real corrections were made was 8 months ago.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:45:47 +0000
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