Delta99
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The study was designed not by me (my degree is in law, not veterinary medicine) but by said vet and Peter Clegg, whose full title is the Professor of Equine Orthopaedics at the University of Liverpool, so I imagine he knows what a study for palmar hoof pain should look like
The full synopsis (which is much longer than 300 words so wasn't used as an abstract) does give details of a control group, which are horses treated conventionally by Leahurst, the Liverpool Uni vet hospital. I don't have details of those horses from them.
I'm still very puzzled by this. I took my horse to Leahurst for the MRI, after having learned about Rockley and making the assumption that Leahurst support barefoot as a treatment option.
Yet their attitude was the complete opposite, under no circumstances was barefoot to be considered - instead, egg bars and box rest were recommended.
I got the impression that the vet's attitude was that I might as well shoot the horse there and then if I was planning to continue with barefoot.
Susie T, I agree with you with regards to soundness, certainly the last 2 videos on Rockley's blog labelled as sound are not sound by my definition either, I do hope that the majority of horses coming out of Rockley look a lot sounder.
I am also somewhat curious why so many horses end up going back to Rockley again, after they have been back with their owner and gone lame again?
Don't get me wrong, I think Rockley are doing a great job where the owners can't manage but it's not as straight forward as people are led to believe on this forum, and as SusieT said, there are different definitions of 'back in full work'. I have heard of plenty of horses sound for hacking and low level RC activity coming out of Rockley but has there ever been an Adv eventer , sj or dressage horse that has returned to that level of work after rehab?