Therapeutic Farriery, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice

A comprehensive review of Therapeutic Farriery for the equine practitioner! Topics include:: the importance of therapeutic farriery in equine practice, the biomechanics of the equine foot as it pertains to farriery, equine imaging:: the framework for applying therapeutic farriery, the basics of farriery as a prelude to therapeutic farriery, therapeutic farriery:: A veterinarians perspective, therapeutic farriery:: a farriers prospective, farriery for the hoof with a low or under run heel, farriery for the hoof with sheared heels, disease of the hoof capsule:: infections, white line disease, keratomas and canker, therapeutic farriery for the young horse, farriery for the hoof with a high heel or club foot, glue-on technology as a means to implement therapeutic farriery, understanding the mechanisms that leads to hoof capsule distortions as a basis for rational management, farriery for hoof wall defects:: quarter cracks and toe cracks, treating laminitis:: beyond the mechanics of trimming and shoeing, and more!