Radkin Equine Podiatry

Radkin Equine Podiatry I'm an experienced vet & farrier focused on creating & maintaining a better hoof for your horse.
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This is a 20+ year old warmblood that was experiencing recurrent abscesses in the right front hoof for about 7 months. T...
04/02/2025

This is a 20+ year old warmblood that was experiencing recurrent abscesses in the right front hoof for about 7 months. The referring vet noted a bone chip at the tip of the coffin bone. He was non weight bearing on the right front the first time I saw him. I blocked the foot to take x-rays & perform a venogram (a contrast study to examine the blood flow in the hoof). The yellow arrows & dotted lines in the x-rays show areas of previous abscess tracts. The image before the venogram shows the small bone chip outlined with a blue dotted line. On the venogram image there's a wedge-shaped area of reduced blood flow & where coffin bone has been resorbed (possibly a result of the previous infections). I made a hole in the hoof wall in line with the location of the bone chip & discharge immediately erupted from the hole. The chip was removed & the area was cleaned thoroughly prior to bandaging. The horse recovered completely & is doing well.

A work in progress... 🙂
03/27/2025

A work in progress... 🙂

Work in progress 🙂
03/27/2025

Work in progress 🙂

03/14/2025

5.5 months of progress. Horse shod with slightly rockered Equilibrium shoes & 2° 3D Hoofcare pad with pour underneath   ...
02/11/2025

5.5 months of progress. Horse shod with slightly rockered Equilibrium shoes & 2° 3D Hoofcare pad with pour underneath

02/11/2025
02/02/2025
02/02/2025

Are short toes dangerous?
Have you ever considered how the foot pitches on soft ground and how that affects tendons and ligaments?

We discussed recently the effects of long toes on increasing the rotational force collapsing the limb and therefore increasing the strain in the flexor structures.

Many people assume from this that short toes are therefore good.
This is not accurate, the correct length of toe is good!
This becomes profound when looking at what happens to the hoof on a soft surface when the weight of the horse comes over it.

If the toe is too short, ground reaction forces will be concentrated on the toe and cause it to sink!! This will increase strain on the suspensory ligament at every step!

Our recent paper defining the point of balance gives us, for the very first time, a quantification of appropriate base proportions (toe length vs heel length of support) to create equilibrium at midstance so that neither the heels or toe sink in. This maintains appropriate load share between the suspensory ligament and the deep digital flexor, superficial digital flexor by maintaining a neutral hoof on a soft surface.
This point has been added to HoofmApp to enable measurement of this in practice!
Read here..

https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/post/the-quantification-and-definition-of-a-new-hoof-balance-paradigm

Join me for a webinar delving into hoof balance to reduce the risk of fetlock structure injury to learn more!. 6th Feb 2pm London time..

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/farrierypreventfetlockinjury

Work in progress. This is a 20 year old horse with a history of chronic laminitis with coffin bone resorption. These x-r...
01/31/2025

Work in progress. This is a 20 year old horse with a history of chronic laminitis with coffin bone resorption. These x-rays are from the first visit at the end of October. Notice the outline of about where the coffin bone should be (prior to resorption). Also notice how the lamellar zone (area between the the dotted blue line and the coffin bone) is of equal thickness proximally and distally indicating that there is no current active laminitis in this area.
The photos and video are from yesterday. This horse is currently sound. He still has a ways to go to get his foot looking like what I want but he has made great progress in only 2 cycles. He's in rockered steel NANRIC shoes and soft urethane pour under leather pads

A little supervision 😂
01/12/2025

A little supervision 😂

Radkin Equine Podiatry had some volunteers for a day (friends from vet school & my lovely wife) 😎
12/29/2024

Radkin Equine Podiatry had some volunteers for a day (friends from vet school & my lovely wife) 😎

12/24/2024
Acute, mild laminitis in a mare. Shod with rockered 4 point rail shoe from  and super soft pour in from Glue-U
12/15/2024

Acute, mild laminitis in a mare. Shod with rockered 4 point rail shoe from and super soft pour in from Glue-U

12/06/2024

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