Laminitis and Founder: Prevention and Treatment for the Greatest Chance of Success featuring the Edema Theory and the Frog Support Theory - Softcover

Doug Butler PhD; CJF; FWCF And Frank Gravlee DVM; MS; CNS

9780979485701: Laminitis and Founder: Prevention and Treatment for the Greatest Chance of Success featuring the Edema Theory and the Frog Support Theory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979485703 ISBN 13: 9780979485701

Publisher: Life Data Labs, 2007

Veterinarian and nutrition expert Dr. Frank Gravlee has joined forces with farrier teacher and author Dr. Doug Butler to create a comprehensive, understandable and sensible guide for horse owners that is also a valuable reference for veterinarians and farriers. Laminitis and Founder: Prevention and Treatment teaches exactly what laminitis is and how the horse s body systems are affected. The book offers detailed advice on how to recognize horses that may be most at risk for the disease, and how to manage them. The second half of the book focuses on the effects of laminitis on the horse s feet, and how to best manage them with professional horseshoeing expertise and veterinary medical treatment. Along with Gravlee and Butler, Dr. George Platt, a Colorado veterinarian, was a consultant to the book. Sections of the book s advice on the use of heart bar horseshoes for laminitis were based on his years as a laminitis specialist and his experience working with the late farrier and heart-bar shoe expert Burney Chapman. Readers will find tips on diet, pasture, obesity, exercise and in particular, the role of nutrition in both the healthy and laminitic horse, as well as advice on medical treatment and details of frog-support shoeing. Recommendations for how farriers and veterinarians should work together, and who does what will be helpful to the horse owner as treatment begins. Veterinarians will find new information in this book on nutritional needs of foundered horses and also details on the edema theory of laminitis as well as insight into the role of the adrenal glands and cortisol production in the frustrating equine metabolic syndrome type of hormonal laminitis. Farriers will see many examples of successful heart bar shoeing regimens with straightforward advice for using heart bars and how to monitor their effect on the laminitic horse.

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About the Author:

Doug Butler PhD, CJF, FWCF is the author of the farrier textbook Principles of Horseshoeing III. He runs Butler Professional Farrier School in Crawford, Nebraska and is a noted speaker and consultant. Dr. Butler has studied laminitis and its effects on horses hooves throughout his career and is a staunch advocate for proper use of the heart bar shoe. Frank Gravlee DVM, MS, CNS is the founder of Life Data Labs and the developer of Farriers Formula, the world s leading horse hoof-growth supplement. Dr. Gravlee breeds and raises Thoroughbred racehorses on the company s research farm in Cherokee, Alabama and has been successfully treating and consulting on cases of laminitis throughout his long career as a veterinarian and nutritionist.

Review:

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.com

This 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.

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