Laminitis and Founder: Prevention and Treatment for the Greatest Chance of Success featuring the Edema Theory and the Frog Support Theory
At last! Dr. Frank Gravlee speaks out on the most devastating lameness problem known to horses. He combines his years of private practice as a veterinarian with his studies as a nutrition scienticist studying hoof growth and tissue function to give practical, credible advice for managing the disease and understanding both the physical and metabolic (endocrine) factors at work inside the horse. Management is stressed, along with medical and dietary care. Dr. Butler's astute overview of the importance of frog support to the destablized hoof capsule creates a long-overdue treatise and tribute to the foundation laid years ago by Burney Chapman's unpublished trial-and-error. This book should create a renaissance for the frog support theory and teach farriers and veterinarians the fine points of using it correctly and sensitively to help the horse recover from laminitis. Butler and Gravlee combine existing knowledge, some of which has never been published, with new research. We needed this book 25 years ago...and we still need it today! --Fran Jurga, Editor/Publisher, Hoofcare & Lameness: Journal of Equine Foot Science and www.hoofcare.comThis book is by two credible authors with class. It is not filled with a bunch of propaganda. What they do, they do with dignity and class. They are masters at what they do. Whether you agree with them or not, you will have a hard time discounting it. Before Dr. Butler does anything, he gets the foot in balance, for want of a better word, I guess. Whether it is deformed or atrophied or whatever, he gets the foot right first and then applies the apparatus. I really like this book. --Texas farrier Blane Chapman, son of Burney Chapman, whose heart-bar techniques are detailed in the book.