Postural Rehabilitation for horses and dogs

Not just for vets!! Hey Fans of Integrative and Holistic veterinary medicine-- I am teaching at a great educational event this weekend and just learned that the IVCVX event is open for pet owners as well. What a fabulous opportunity to learn about the newest and most exciting innovations in animal care! Please share so that you and your friends can learn from this amazing group of internationally renowned vet speakers. Registration is FREE for real time, $29 for access any time. See you on the Moon! (Dopey theme of the event!!) https://ivcvx.vet/register-now/

Hey PR Fans-- Double lecture by Dr. Gellman on Canine Posture at IVCVX next Sunday, 11/7, 9 am and 10:30! Registering is FREE, but if you want 48 hrs of RACE CE, it's $199. Still a great deal!! https://ivcvx.vet

Completely enthralling. Be sure to watch until the end!

From our friend Ashley. Read both her description as a farrier, and my description below from PR perspective-- both are accurate and the photo is boss. I will add another photo of a similar foot grown out. Hopefully, you will have an "Aha!!" moment about hoof asymmetry and so-called "low heels". (****Note, as well, that both forwardly migrated hoof capsule on fore feet and standing camped in on hind feet will result in compression and damage to the digital cushion, leadi...ng to reduced palmar/plantar angles. Different etiology, same problem.****) This is such a critical point to understand this typically named low heel is actually super long, but it length runs forward, not down it is extremely distorted. It is VERY common for some (less savvy) farriers to place a shoe right on top of those bent tubules. Another way of visualizing this is seeing that the capsule surrounding the coffin bone has grown so long that it’s weight-bearing surface has been displaced forward there is now a mismatch between the center of the foot and the center of the hoof capsule. You can make a model" with your hands make a tight beak coffin bone with one, and use your fingers and thumb to simulate the hoof capsule surrounding it. Now move that capsule away from the toe. Voilá! Long toe with under run heel. Now imagine the heel of the actual P3 bone sinking and laying those tubules on their side. That is how we misdiagnose these as a low heel, and mistakenly think it must be preserved at all costs. The up foot and the down foot are BOTH long, just in different planes.

All agility peeps, please participate for the health of our dogs!

Norway PR starts in three days!! Not the greatest to have it happen in the midst of a pandemic, but I’m sure we will be inspired by fear!