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03/21/2025

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Congratulations to the following PHCP students who passed their Intermediate Studies presentations and are now Advanced Student Practitioners. Thank you to the Scholarship Committee and donors to the Scholarship Fund who made it possible for scholarship recipients to pursue certification.

03/04/2025
🗣️Train your eye🗣️What do your horses’ hoof prints look like?
10/27/2024

🗣️Train your eye🗣️

What do your horses’ hoof prints look like?

10/22/2024
10/17/2024
10/15/2024
Read me 📖 👀
10/08/2024

Read me 📖 👀

✈️PHCP's hoof care conference was quite transformative for me✈️I have deeply considered the horses body for my own horse...
10/07/2024

✈️PHCP's hoof care conference was quite transformative for me✈️

I have deeply considered the horses body for my own horses in relation to the growth of their feet. I however, have often narrowed my focus just to the feet and gait in my hoof care practice. Of course, mentioning glaring issues but not the more subtle observations. I tend to overwhelm people with information anyways, as you can see in this post here 😂.

Tension in the muscles, a lack of structural development, an imbalanced rider, a poor fitting saddle, nerve compression and vascular compression, riding a horse without structural development, and the horses metabolic state deeply affects the whole horse and their feet.

❤️The health and happiness of the horse at risk if we ignore the sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle signs.

💡 In my practice, I will be implementing more focus on metabolic health, and I will be paying attention to compensatory postures and patterns and making bodywork recommendations.

✍️ I cannot fit them all here, but are some other key take aways from the conference taken from speakers Dr. Jenny Hagan, Celeste Lazaris, Wendy Murdoch, Dr. Rendle, and Ida Hammer:

👉It is really fun to talk to strangers when they are fellow horse nerds.

👉There are toads in Chicago 🐸

❤️Horses are not motorcycles, you cannot just jump on and expect good results.

❤️Physical development is paramount, especially for the spine, thoracic outlet, and lumbosacral regions of the horse.

💡Laminitis is a collective failure of owner, veterinarian and podiatrist. It is preventable.

✍️Studys have shown that obese mares have profound differences in placental metabolism that are passed on to the foal. Fat mares produce foals with reduced metabolic function.

✍️Obese pregnant mares are at a heightened risk for developing laminitis.

💡A physically well developed horse has more confidence.

‼️In a published study- If insulin levels were less than 21.6, 6% of ponies developed laminitis, if insulin was 21.6-45.2, 22% percent developed laminitis, if insulin was > 45, 69% of them developed laminitis- a 2 in 3 risk. The ponies were fed a pasture diet and were studied over a 4-year period.

❤️‍🩹Aggressive horses are always in pain.

✏️High insulin levels induce laminitis. 90 % of laminitis has an endocrine cause.

✏️Thin horses can have elevated insulin levels, it is not just a condition of obese horses.

✏️50% of domestic horses are obese.

💚Take more pictures!

✏️Small increases in NSC have been shown to markedly increase insulin levels.

✏️Exercise has a 72 hour effect on reducing insulin resistance.

✏️Peroglide does not suppress progression of disease (PPID), but aims at managing clinical signs.

✏️Turning out late at night to early morning is the best way to restrict sugar pasture sugar intake.

✏️Horses show less aggressive behavior on a track system versus a strip grazing system.

✏️Obese pregnant mares have foals with higher incidents of OCD.

💡Compression at the cervicothoracic junction causes nerve impingement and blood flow impingement leading to unwanted behaviors and poor hoof quality.

✏️Fascia is composed of 90% nerve endings dictating proprioception and can stretch up to 200%

💡All myofascial nerve lines in the body feed into the poll and feet except one.

❤️‍🩹Gelding scars can be a cause of behavioral issues in the horse.

💡💡💡Don't just look at the foot, foot issues are not always foot issues ➡ look at the body.

💡The first year of a horse's life they have a 100% remodeling of tissues in the hoof. In comparison, an adult has as little as 10% per year. Foals must be trimmed and maintained early. Once the conformation fully develops, it can no longer be corrected.

✏️Hoof capsule shape mimics the shape of the coffin bone. So, if it was allowed to become conformationally misshaped as a foal, you are stuck with it. Body conformation cannot be influenced, just posture.

💚💚💚If you made it this far, you are a hoof nerd- let's be friends 😉

Equine Complex Vertebral Malformation
10/06/2024

Equine Complex Vertebral Malformation

Sharon’s passion for horses was first noticed when she was caught riding a bush horse at 4 years of age. She would climb up the front leg and haul herself up...

Steel shoes were pulled off May of this year 💐 Now sporting a better hairline angle, the heel bulbs are no longer on the...
10/01/2024

Steel shoes were pulled off May of this year 💐 Now sporting a better hairline angle, the heel bulbs are no longer on the ground, and there is an improved hoof pastern axis. Feet on the mend 💕

🙋‍♀️ I get asked a lot if under-run heels and contracted or atrophied digital cushions can be rehabbed. When I say “yes,...
09/20/2024

🙋‍♀️ I get asked a lot if under-run heels and contracted or atrophied digital cushions can be rehabbed.

When I say “yes, I have seen it and it depends on the horse”, it really doesn’t seem that people believe me. Age and many factors are at play, but I have seen some small and big improvements across the board.

But here it is, 3 months progress and my own hard work.

Mineral balanced forage based diet, natural vitamin E, salt, and heel first landings (thrush treatment etc).

The back half of the foot and digital cushion is the shock absorber for the horse. It's health is super important and quite overlooked.

09/18/2024

Meet Celeste Lazaris, a presenter at the 2024 PHCP Conference.

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