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This suppression of inflammation is usually done through medication and/or wedge pads. Metabolism diminishes, and healing becomes slow if not impossible, since healing requires increased metabolism.Also, the use of wedge pads or bar shoes only increases the problem, doubling the pressure put onto the damaged region. Cells in the already damaged area die off, while cells on the edges of the afflicted area remain inflamed, producing wound secretion instead of stabilizing horn. Acute laminitis, therefore, is a long time in the making.
The "sudden" appearance of laminitis is brought on either by additional overload or several possible poisonous ingredients; however, these are not the causes for the laminitis, rather the "straw that broke the camel's back".
Pollitt shows dramatially in his video that a steep hoof is insufficiently supplied with blood; this is especially severe when the horse moves little, because it means long persisting vasoconstriction without the short frequent opening by joint motion.
So far, over 50 horses with acute laminits were healed exclusively by lowering the palmar processes (bringing the hoof, and as such the coffin bone, back into its original position through trimming), and optimizing blood flow through the foot with movement, not medication or shoeing, etc. Removing the cause (overload of the coffin bone) took 2-8 weeks, depending on the stage of the disease at the beginning. After 3-5 months, as soon as 75% of the coffin bone was tightly connected with the laminae again, the horse was able to move pain-free.
With friendly permition by DVM H. Strasser
Copyright 2005 Dr. vet. med. H. Strasser
Ed & Trans. Sabine Kells
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