Description
Provides horse owners with information that can help to free horses from the acute suffering of laminitis and help to improve their living conditions.
New books on founder and laminitis are constantly being published, but do not introduce new methods to heal the problem. In contrast, by respecting the laws of physics and the known properties and abilities of the tissues involved, it is possible to permanently heal coffin bone rotation or protrusion or other hoof problems.Author: Hiltrud Strasser Dr. med. Vet., PhD Publisher: Sabine KellsEditor: Sabine KellsTranslator: Sabine KellsEdition: 1st EditionISBN: 9780968598849Pages: 130Width (mm): 143Length (mm): 214Weight (g): 380Table of Contents:
- What is founder?: What is commonly meant by founder or laminitis?
- Occurrences in a laminitic hoof: Differential diagnosis
- What's happening in the hoof capsule?
- The weightbearing wall
- Overstressing in the frontal laminar region
- The founder stance and navicular pain
- Development from acute to chronic condition: Acute laminitis: Circulation in the hoof
- Perception of pain
- Chronic laminitis (founder)
- Effects on the entire organism: Unphysiological muscle action
- Detrimental effects on metabolism
- Reduced shock absorption
- Over-stressing of the heart
- Pain
- Causes and prevention: Overstressing
- Poisoning; Hoof form
- Nutrition
- Boarding conditions
- Breed and terrain
- Actions and prognosis: Identifying the cause: Hoof form
- Terrain
- Amount of movement
- Hydration of the hooves
- Shoeing
- Removing the cause
- Treatment and healing
- Prognosis
- Current conventional treatment: Methods
- Forced immobilisation
- Dieting; Medications
- Orthopedic shoeing
- Steepening of hooves
- Grooving
- Resections.
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