Re: RC: Re: Barefoot and hoof growth

[Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

What I was asking was "have any studies been done using a sufficient
sample size and good experiment design with results appearing in peer
review journal. And if so have the results be validated or rejected in
subsequent studies again using good experiment design."

From what I have heard I guess the answer is no.

Truman



Karen Standefer wrote:

> The only thermographs I'm aware of are of horses
> standing still.  There is very little imaging below
> the carpal joints on a shod horse (as a matter of
> fact, it looks like the leg is amputated below the
> carpal joints), but full imaging on a barefoot horse.
> I have a copy of one thermograph at home of a horse
> barefoot on 3 feet and shod on one.  On the leg with
> the shod hoof, the image doesn't show anything below
> the carpal joints.
>
> The studies that Pollit did are pretty definite
> regarding blood flow in a shod hoof.  And, although he
> was trying to proove a point for a particular horshoe
> company with his studies, they shop short of actually
> proving that the particular horseshoe does in fact
> give the horse better circulation.  He does a very
> complete study with standard shoes and barefoot, but
> then stops short on the studies with the "special"
> brand of shoes.  But, they show, graphically, that a
> shoe puts pressure on the hoof and does not allow any
> where close to proper circulation.  The video is quite
> interesting.
>
> Karen
>
> --- Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Susan,
> >
> > Has anyone ever looked at thermograms for shod and
> > unshod horses on a treadmill
> > to look at the blood flow?
> >
> > Truman
> >
> > Susan Garlinghouse wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I appreciate your enthusiasm and you're more than
> > welcome to an opinion, but
> > > this doesn't even begin to make sense from a
> > physiological point of view
> > > (except that an unshod foot does probably get
> > better blood flow).
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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