Relevante trim mark- - Question From Farrier


Lynn
 

Hi Lavinia,

The trim went well Friday. My farrier had a question for you. He wants to know why Relevante seems to keep breaking the inside of his heels. It's the medial side, never the lateral. Collateral grooves are equal.  We trail rode today and Relevante did extremely well! We didn't do more than walk since he was just trimmed yesterday and had some downtime from his incident with pushing his fencing out to get grass. That lengthy soreness he had on the RH after the last trim resolved and he didn't seem to experience that level of soreness this time. I rode him in Cavallo Trek boots with their new red cushion pads. 
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Lynn
Beavercreek, Ohio
March 2018
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Lavinia Fiscaletti
 

Hi Lynn,

In all of the dorsal photos, he appears to be slightly laterally high. That would tip him onto his medial side more, which could explain why the medial side breaks off. At this stage, we should be aiming to get the heel heights to just a smidge above the sole plane height. Anywhere the walls are not well connected, there should be no wall length beyond the sole plane - leaving it even a few millimeters longer will only cause it to break off as it isn't structurally sound.  When measuring collateral groove depths, make sure to find the deepest point  - which may/may not be even with the location of the heels. Place your measurement tool down into the groove  all the way to the bottom; hold it upright, not tilted; take the measurement based on the height of the sole (no wall beyond sole) at the perimeter of the hoof. Same idea for the depth near the apex of the frog. See figure 8 here:

https://www.hoofrehab.com/HeelHeight.html

 
His heels continue to be somewhat flared, with a cavernous distance between the bars and the frog. That needs to tighten up so that his heels are actually under his leg, supporting his bony column, rather than splayed out on either side of it. His frogs need to develop more fully, which means he needs to be landing solidly heel-first and engaging them with the ground (or engaging them in his boots with the pads).  Need to get those walls in the heels tightened up, out of weight bearing and rocker the backs of the buttresses. Figure 2,3,4 here show what's needed:

https://www.hoofrehab.com/HeelHeight.html

 
 
Cavallo now has some thicker pads for their boots which I would prefer over their other, thin gel pads as they provide more cushion and have more of a supportive function. They are very similar to the Easycare Comfort pads, which are a lot less expensive and have 3 different densities.

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Lynn
 

hi Lavinia,

I printed out the information associated with the links and have been studying/comparing your comments with the information at the links. I think the light bulb is slowly coming on as to the parts of the puzzle we've been missing [even though we thought I thought we weren't]. Between now and his trim August 12. I'm also going to practice measuring the collateral grooves myself to see if I get the same thing my farrier gets. Thanks for mentioning the Easycare comfort pads. They are more economical. I'm going to purchase a pair of the 6mm mediums and firms to see how these work. The new Cavallo pads already have holes starting in them.  Thanks so much for the added input! We will get this right eventually. 
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Lynn
Beavercreek, Ohio
March 2018
Relevante Case History
Relevante Photo Album

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