Equine Podiatry Part 1

Barefoot Equine Podiatry

Equus: 1 000 000 years ~ Hardware: 500 years

Because having a barefoot horse?

Whatever work they perform very few exceptions the horses can live and work without irons. The helmets fit almost all circumstances as these in boxes or in paddocks or fields, with a bit of hygiene and minimal conditions to the new circumstances the horse lives and works perfectly without shoes.

Having a horse barefoot is an added value in particular cases such as raid or thirteen, dressage horses or trotters the natural trim is valid also for down payment, up to complete the jump and the highest level, discipline where there are many competing horses barefoot.

As summarized getting or keeping a horse barefoot will allow the hulls to rediscover in an optimal manner all its functions and these are numerous and incredible.

We are accustomed to think of the helmet as a hard capsule, unfeeling exterior which surrounds and protects the coffin bone (also called the coffin bone, the distal phalanx, third phalanx, or simply P3) but this is far from reality. The fact is, the hull has an important role in locomotion beyond merely the support base to the tip and the protection of the third phalanx of an injury.

Helmets are a perfect cushions to sit on the floor with their movements, contractions, openings and greatly alleviate ligaments, tendons and bones of the leg, also active in the cardiovascular system of the horse where the helmet here and play structures the role of a pump, small heart which sends blood to help the animal's cardiovascular efforts also because it is highly vascularized makes an effective filtering system.

But not only this little definition that summarizes the biological functions of the town, thanks to Barehoof movement began a decade ago a number of new research on the internal structure, growth, sensitive parts of the hull and also impact management major advances in the understanding of conditions including laminitis and treatment. Today, thanks to these advances and understanding we can treat noninvasive helmets with full guarantees.

The helmet is like a sensory box, recent studies and ongoing work by Dr. Robert Bowker, a veterinary anatomist located at Michigan State University has revealed fascinating facts about the innervation in the horse's foot. Different soft tissue at the base digital pad are abundantly supplied with sensory receptors, specialized nerve endings that transmit information to the CNS (central nervous system) through the sensory nerves, but this is another issue that would for an article in itself.

5 years ago that I have for horses and their hooves Cavalls of Terraprim, prior to this time had any dealings with them or very sporadically as the vast majority of people. It was my wife knowing that I began to see these animals as normal in my life. When you leave the city and tie to become a farmer, look for my site which could be in this new world and began to search, a workshop here another there, so I do not see how you might feel an integrated part.

When a person has just landed on the horse that has not previously had any education or training in this regard are questions that thousands of assault and one of the most important after a while was because an animal as beautiful to perfection Nature not only above us but also assemble nailed him a few irons in his limbs, that's how I started looking for all possible information on helmets, anatomy, diseases and so on. I discovered that many people to the same question also existed worldwide associations which enacted the possibility of caring for the headphones work of our animals with emphasis on the health of themselves, food and holistic care. By then I had left my first horse barefoot Bruixa ...

Now the horse hull treatment is part of my life dedicating myself completely to this job that I love both equine podiatry.

I trained in France with various professionals AANHCP (American Association Natural Hoof Care) am a member of the appointing authority (French Association of Natural trim) and Applied Equine Podiatry member (USA) in continuing education. I take care of my 20 horses regularly in which are home barefoot and make about three and a half years combine this work with the hoof care in various stud farms, equestrian centers Clinics and customers who wanted to give a new gang member more natural to live their horses.

The beginnings

In the United States as Lyle Bergel farrier Jaime Jackson and Pete Ramey, were as many problems facing many of the helmets because of their work, unable to obtain desired results and healing with modern materials and different techniques applied, it inspired by the nature of the hooves of wild horses Mustangs.

The big surprise was precisely the object of study quality helmets these animals that traveled great distances daily, varied terrain largely covered by rocks and stones. There was a constant in all of them, a concave sole, a wide frog and strong heels at the height of the sole and a short clip.

These farriers mentioned, one of them decides to have another way of branding and trim the hull, and other shoes definitely leave forever, so it's like to find a veterinarian who owns Dr. Hiltrud Strasser clinic for the treatment of pathologies helmets for 20 years.

These farriers and veterinarians now much more numerous than the above there is the acceptance and belief that domesticated horses can well be without shoes, with special care by providing a way of life much more natural and capable of doing and being in the competitions in all existing modalities.

Everyone pretty much knows, veterinarians, farriers and professionals. The shoes are harmful to the town but there is a famous saying which seems to excuse the roots of this tradition to put iron helmets, is said to be a "necessary evil" and is closely linked to the saying that "no foot no horse" , now almost a tradition you could say no horse without shoes ...

Most horse owners wait for the catastrophe before the Barefoot interest when the farrier or veterinarian

and fall short of their solutions in front of navicular syndrome or laminitis of last grade incurable lameness when techniques called "traditional" have exhausted the possibilities of healing the "sick" classic shoes, orthopedic shoes and so on. When the solution sometimes proposed and practiced as often as euthanasia is presented, leaving horses barefoot is the last of their hopes, ...