Digging for the truth about navicular syndrome
One of the most mind boggling areas of hoof pathology for a farrier to attempt to research is navicular syndrome. Every old text contradicts the next, and mountains of new research are being done every day.
The good news is that farriers studying the hooves of feral horses and trimming domestic hooves to a closer facsimile to what nature intended, have been routinely restoring soundness to hopeless navicular cases.
Veterinary researchers have been studying in this new direction and are steadily unlocking all of the old mysteries about navicular problems.
As one of these farriers who has come to think of restoring comfort and usability to navicular horses as a routine task, I am writing this article in hopes of familiarizing others with the current and very successful ways we are dealing with the problem.
Understanding what the real problems are is 99 percent of the battle.
