They want to be confident in adverse conditions that the shoes will stay. The prophylactic category consists of horses owned by people who want to prevent problems. As the wall continues to weaken, the shoe has to be fit on tighter and tighter and the horse’s foot will become misshapen. The therapeutic group consists of those horses that have hoof problems, such as thin hoof walls, lamenesses requiring this treatment, chronic problems or structural failure to the hoof wall because they have gotten into what I call, for lack of a better term, the “shoe-loss cycle.” This is where they lose a shoe and then the hoof wall is missing and the shoe is replaced and the second time the wall is a little weaker and the shoe does not stay on as well, and so on.
Rob Sigafoos: Generally there are two groups: the therapeutic and the prophylactic. Horse Journal: What kind of horse would benefit from a glue-on shoe We discussed common concerns when choosing glue-on shoes. Sigafoos, who helped design shoes marketed by Soundness Technology, has been shoeing horses for 25 years and is considered an expert on glue-on shoes.
He is a graduate of the Oklahoma Farriers College and of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Advanced Farrier program. Rob Sigafoos is chief of farrier services and director of the Applied Polymer Research Laboratory at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.
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