Shoeing the laminitic horse and for other pathologies of the foot (2023)
Overview
Can we really offload and protect injured structures in the foot? Is there any evidence base for the shoes we recommend? I’ll present the concepts behind the recommended shoes for a variety of common ailments and give my personal experience of each one.
Presenters
Dr. Andy Fiske-Jackson BVSc MVetMed FHEA Dipl.ECVS MRCVS
Andy graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2004 and worked for the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad for the following three months. He then worked in mixed practice in Somerset. In July 2006 he undertook an eighteen-month internship at the Liphook Equine Hospital followed by a six-month ambulatory position. He then completed a three-year Senior Clinical Training Scholarship and Masters of Veterinary Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College. He took up the position of Staff Clinician in Equine Surgery in February 2012 becoming a lecturer in 2014, a Senior lecturer in 2017 and an Associate Professor in Equine Surgery in 2021. In 2019 he became the Deputy Head of RVC Equine. He is an RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Surgery with a particular interest in the use of the objective gait analysis system and its role in working up poor performance cases. He is also expanding its use in his research of back movement and it’s association with pain and poor performance.
