Thanks for all the links. I am going to try a DIY barefoot rehab if I can. Just trying to work out the logistics.
So I am ok with feed, I think. Low sugar and starch, Feet First recommended balancer.
Trimming - I am following Prof Bowker's reccommendations re short toe, leave sole alone, medio-lateral balance. Assuming I can find a farrier/trimmer who will do that.
I can do 24/7 turnout on a variety of conformable surfaces sand, pea gravel, wood chip as well as some pasture. But can't do a track system where she is. Though can have hay out in different places to encourage her to move. She is out with others and playful anyway. How important is restricting grass?
Am I meant to start hacking her out in walk? The vet is fine with me starting hacking her in walk. Not as part of barefoot which he is not a supporter of, but generally.
I am hopeful but not optimistic. I just can't get away from my belief that if there really was a cheap, effective treatment for common and career endfing injuries, it would be more widely recognised. And I have worked on enough research trials to know that promising avenues often yield disappointing results when looked at more closely.
BUT it makes intuitive sense to me, enough credible folk support it, some outcomes obviously are good and it will stop me feeing so helpless. I may hold off on the MRI just because as far as I can see I would be dong the same regardless of whether it's the DDFT, collateral ligament or anything else in there! Their protocols for hoof pain seem the same and they treat horses withou an MRI so why spend £1200 on it?
Any thoughts or advice. Any NW people know a farrier/ trimmer supportive of this approach who would help? Wish us both luck.