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What’s going on inside your horse’s hooves during injury and disease?
Your horse’s hooves are amazingly complex structures designed to communicate with the central nervous system, carry weight, and absorb concussion. Each hoof’s intricate parts and their corresponding functions normally work together to support and propel him, pain-free.
But what’s happening inside the hoof when pain, resulting from injury and/or disease, sets in? Our sources Ann-Marie Hancock, DVM, EDO, and Tim Rogers, DVM, of True North Equine Veterinary Services, in Warrenton, Virginia; and Paige Poss, partner in Anatomy of the Equine LLC, in Tucson, Arizona; presenter at the Northeast Association of Equine Practitioners (NEAEP) symposium; and a longtime hoof trimmer whose hoof dissection photographs have helped shed light on hoof pathology (disease or damage) reveal what they’ve learned dealing with six common hoof conditions.