Evaluation using hoof wall strain gauges of a therapeutic shoe and a hoof cast with a heel wedge as potential supportive therapy for horses with laminitis

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 630-636

  Hansen, Nicolas ^b   Buchner, Florian ^a   Haller, Jürgen ^b   Windischbauer, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hoof cast; Hoof wall; Horse; Laminitis; Laminitis therapy; Strain gauges; Therapeutic shoe

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FOOT DISEASE; FORELIMB; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTER CAST; PRESSURE; SHOE; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CASTS, SURGICAL; FOOT DISEASES; FORELIMB; HOOF AND CLAW; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; PRESSURE; SHOES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 29144528247     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2005.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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