Re: Strasser Method Question?/ Navicular

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: : The point was not to compare the actual problems but to make a moral point. I think you know this but are looking for ways around it. : There is no moral point to be made. : :As far as shoes being quicker it is simply a form of druging as the hoof goes numb after a shoe is applied. : This is a claim repeatedly made by SINners. It is totally unsubstantiated, without merit and wrong. If even one scintilla of evidence existed, I am quite sure that the SINners would have trumpeted it on high from one end of the known world to the other. : : : Healing takes increased circulation, shoeing greatly reduces circulation. There is no real healing with shoeing only a temp. fix. : Again, you have spouted the party line. One that, I might add, has no basis in fact, truth or reality. : Let me quote from a passage by Dr. James Rooney, DVM: : "Raising heel and shortening toe is done on the foot with a long toe, low heel and hoof angle much less than 50 degrees; in otherwords, an abnormal foot." : Hmmm, sounds like the description of a foot prepared by a SINner, following the dictates of the leader of SIN. : Dr. Rooney continue:"....no one is claiming "cure" only amelioration of an improper condition." : and, "I refuse to get involved in the Strasser situation--ONE OF THE MAIN SOURCES OF THE UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS ABOUT BLOOD FLOW"(capitalization is mine not Dr. Rooney's). Measuring such flow accurately and over a period of time and interpreting the results properly is a difficult task and not for casual diddling around. I am not an expert in peripheral vascular phusiology and neither are any of those who are making claims about foot and hoof vascular flow...." : Dr. Rooney sums up by stating: "There is so much myth and nonsense spouted to support crackpot theorizing about the foot of the horse, it is only a miracle that man has not succeeded in destroying the animal utterly." : : You will need actual coffin bones to make such a survey. X-rays are to easily distorted depending greatly on the angles the shots are taken at. : Does this mean that those radiographs Strasser and the other SINners refer to and use, are actually distortions? How about the line drawings either drawn free hand or taken from said radiographs? Are you now contending that the Strasser protocol is based on distorted views of the hoof? : Yes off course coffin bones come in all sizes, this is obvious. Difference in shapes is another matter, due to pressures of shoeing and incorrect trimming. : That should be incorrect shoeing, not shoeing in general. : : Most coffin bones we prepare have some from of damage to the palmar process. I even have one that shows the horse had not only shoes but clips as well. : If you did not see whether or not the horse was wearing shoes, how did you determine that the shoes were clipped? : However, the basic toe angles come out the same; 45 fronts, 55 backs. : Regardless of the angle formed by the dorsal wall and sole of p3, we are discussion the spatial orientation of p3 within the hoof capsule. Here again, there is nothing to substantiate that the front hoof toe angle should be made : to be 45 degrees. In point of fact, having now read Dr. Rooney's comments, above, you are aware that a hoof angle of less than 50 degrees is considered abnormal and thus the hoof to which said angle belongs, is abnormal. Without using too much of my considerable, vast, and superior brain power, it is easy enough to deduce that the Strasser protocol has again been rebuked, debunked and shown to be wrong. : However, those who exist in the Bozone(the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating) try to counter by employing the Dopelar(sic)effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. : : : Tracy : Rick : (who hopes that those reading this are able to bridge the sarchasm(the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it) ). rb