It is truly pressure between the rock and the hard place. Also there can be various degrees of separation of the hoof from the bone due to this inflammation. So this pain can be excruciating for quite a long time. The problem can be fairly mild and go away in a few weeks or could become a protracted serious lifetime problem. What is frustrating for Mansmann, and now me, is that about 50 percent of laminitis cases could probably have been prevented if the horses' owners had been educated about the disease.
Ignorance causes things to go amiss.
He achieves this through applied equine sports medicine, the horse equivalent of human sports medicine. Mansmann came to the Triangle in 1994 from California to do a clinical instructorship at N.C. State University College of Veterinary Medicine. The Triangle captured his heart and so a new leg of his life began. When I heard he was doing this, through my farrier, Jim Clemente, who attends them, I thought it was really cool because it is a dirty secret of the horse world that veterinarians and farriers are often at odds due to different ways of seeing. The horse client can bear the brunt of these conflicts at times.