A farrier can't cure or correct anything, he can only relieve the symptoms to some degree. The primary method of shoeing the NS horse is to stand them up and turn them over. This means that the farrier will do whatever he can to increase the angulation. Secondly, and most important from the standpoint of enhanced turnover, the shoe must be set under so that an imaginary line from the front of the fetlock, bisecting the toe, to the ground, is as short as possible. The easiest method of protecting the rear third of the foot is the use of a bar shoe.
Upright horses respond better to the more circular style of egg bars or straight bars.
The aforementioned methods of farriery may be used individually or in combination. Navicular problems range in severity from a slight bruise to the navicular bursa to a fractured navicular bone. Sometimes, all methods of palliation fail and a poster digital neurectomy becomes the only viable alternative to euthanasia. The usual method is to sever the medial and lateral posterior digital nerves. 28800 bauds now welcome.