Fixing WLD

[Ronald Aalders]

I was working in a barn when a visiting vet asked me to have a look at a sore mini.

The mini was three legged lame on his LH (at least you can easily tell what's the affected foot that way). When examining the LH foot a big cavity in the toe sole-wall junction was visible.

Money was tight here. But X rays were made. X rays did not reveal any fracture or so. Also the knee and hock appeared not sore so I started working on the foot.

It turned out to be a (unilateral) distortion of the bond between the hoofwall and the white line much resembling WLD. I resected the dorsal hoofwall and we found a lot of dirt packed in that cavity. After the resection the pony was a lot better, probably because the pressure eased off. After some talk (mostly about money) with the owner it was decided we'ld take our chances on not applying any shoes or anything.

We agreed that I would trim the pony every 6 weeks and would check up on the resection and the growing out of it. I never had to touch up the resection. After about 8 months I found the foot in picture perfect shape, no distorsions, no nothing.

Sometimes all you have to do is let mother nature do what she's good at.



Ronald Aalders

[Bill Mayfield]

Hi Ron,

About this resection, what was the process for keeping it clean between your trims? Was it bandaged, medicated, etc?

Bill

[Ronald Aalders]

Hi Bill,

Before anyone gets carried away here I'm not recommending this way to treat WLD. We're lucky it turned out so good!

In between the foot was (I hope) brushed off and treated with a chloride hexidine ointment designed for human use. But I kind of expect that even this treatment was not followed through with too much care though. No bandages were used as I don't like wrapping a WLD case unless you really have to.


Ronald Aalders

[rbloom11]

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