Equine Hoof Care Teams at Work
Corie Traylor
April 15, 2025
Two equine hoof care professionals share examples of how they diagnosed, treated, and maintained horses suffering from hoof-related lamenesses.
Two equine hoof care professionals share examples of how they diagnosed, treated, and maintained horses suffering from hoof-related lamenesses.
Meet Beau and follow the 8-year-old Quarter Horse’s journey from subtle lameness to return to performance.
Read about common heel conditions in horses and how to address them.
A veterinarian explains why hoof radiographs are important, how to use them, and what role they play in helping your horse feel and move better.
What’s going on inside your horse’s hooves during injury or disease? Sources reveal what they’ve learned about common hoof conditions such as abscesses and sheared heels.
Getting to the root of podotrochlosis is an ongoing process. Learn about risk factors for the disease and how veterinarians diagnose it.
Navicular syndrome, once feared as a career-ending diagnosis, can now be managed more effectively, despite ongoing challenges.
Explore the causes of the chronic hoof condition navicular disease and find out how you can manage it.
Horses can go lame for a variety of reasons. Here are 4 common causes of lameness and their treatment options.
Here’s what researchers know about the use of bisphosphonates and future opportunities for further investigation.
A veterinarian describes what causes podotrochlosis and how practitioners diagnose and manage it.
Navicular syndrome, more accurately referred to as podotrochlosis, is a catchall phrase describing chronic forelimb lameness caused by pain stemming from the navicular bone and related structures. Sponsored by Dechra.
Researchers reported thermography showed lower temperatures in the heels and toes of horses wearing egg bar shoes or wedge pads; the findings remain inconclusive.
Dr. Weston Warnock shares his clinical experience using orthobiologics to help manage horses with foot pain.
Belgian researchers use both modalities to investigate the causes of foot pain in 30 horses referred to the equine hospital for forelimb lameness.
What can an owner do to control a horse’s foot pain? We turned to two equine veterinarians that spend a lot of time managing horses’ feet to find out.
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