Island Vets - Lami treatment??

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So I'm watching this programme and a horse comes on that is being treated for laminitis, and apparently there is this new technique to treat it but I just wanted to get other people's views on it

Basically with remedial farriery they'll help the horse by putting special shoes on that are shorter than usual and placed on the hoof midway towards heel
So the toe has no shoe on it (if that makes any sense :/ )
So this in effect pushes the weight of horse from toe towards the heel to try and stop the rotation of the coffin bone, according to the vets explanation.

What are your views on this? As I was just a bit baffled by it
 
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This is not a new technique it has been around fior years - the farrier knocks the clip off the shoe and turns the shoe around so the part where the clip was is now at the heel and the toe is 'open'. It's called a reverse shoe and is used depending on the pedal bone rotation degree.

Often packing and vetwrap and duck tape are used to give the correct support and try to halt rotation rather than shoeing or a glue on shoe with frog support.
 
But the shoe was put on the other way round with clip at heel and open at toe... just moved midway down the hoof which was why I was a it confused
 
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