Was asked to look at a horse with wood blocks. He is abscessing in his heels. It looks as if the casting is up to high on his bulbs and when he loads his hinds his bulbs are digging into the casting material. I like to keep the casting on good horn and if necessary on the block only on my low heeled horses.
What was the idea with the wood blocks? This doesn't look anything like a Stewart clog application if that was the objective.
There was a guy a couple yrs ago promoting casts like that for "curing" laminitis with a few case studies. Seems to have fallen off the planet after a few of his disciples had horses go bad when casted. Did the same guy do that one, John?
I have a friend who has had success with over 40 foundered horses in the last couple of years by using stuart clogs and casting as a treatment. The above photo shows the cast is fitted totally wrong and shouldn't encroach soft tissue, poor knowledge and application.
With you Marc. Seems to be an extremely misguided application of the Stewart clog protocol. My first reaction to the photo was that this must be the work of a "barefoot specialist."
This horse is foundering in all four feet. This is of the hind. He came into clinic with pneumonia and colitis.The horse was quicked in the left hind 3 days prior; the shoe was left alone (the owner thought it was the least of the horses problems.) When shoe was removed an abscess was found in the medial toe. A set of wood block were placed on fronts and then hinds one day later. Then the owners called in a different person to change out wood blocks.
