Therapeutic Farriery, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice (Volume 28-2) (The Clinics: Veterinary Medicine, Volume 28-2)

Book info: Therapeutic Farriery, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice (Volume 28-2) (The Clinics: Veterinary Medicine, Volume 28-2) (Hardcover, 0 pages) – Saunders, 2012. Language: English.

A comprehensive review of Therapeutic Farriery for the equine practitioner! Topics include: the importance of therapeutic farriery in equine practice, the biomechanics of the equine foot as it pertains to farriery, equine imaging: the framework for applying therapeutic farriery, the basics of farriery as a prelude to therapeutic farriery, therapeutic farriery: A veterinarian's perspective, therapeutic farriery: a farrier's prospective, farriery for the hoof with a low or under run heel, farriery for the hoof with sheared heels, disease of the hoof capsule: infections, white line disease, keratomas and canker, therapeutic farriery for the young horse, farriery for the hoof with a high heel or club foot, glue-on technology as a means to implement therapeutic farriery, understanding the mechanisms that leads to hoof capsule distortions as a basis for rational management, farriery for hoof wall defects: quarter cracks and toe cracks, treating laminitis: beyond the mechanics of trimming and shoeing, and more! Editorial Reviews About the Author Northern Virginia Equine, Marshall, VA

Department of Large Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA