Re: RC: Re: Barefoot and hoof growth

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

I haven't seen any, Truman, but then I wasn't looking.

Susan G
----- Original Message -----
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@mindspring.com>
To: "Karen Standefer" <hrschk@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>;
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: RC: Re: Barefoot and hoof growth


> 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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