The Hoofcare Specialist's Handbook - Textbook

The Hoofcare Specialist’s Handbook: Hoof Orthopaedics and Holistic Lameness Rehabilitation (Strasser/Kells) is the first comprehensive work to cover every major lameness and its holistic rehabilitation using Dr. Strasser’s method of hoofcare. At 800 pages long and containing close to 1300 images, this hard-cover and professionally bound book was written as the textbook for the internationally taught two-year Strasser Hoofcare Professional course. The information in this book is based on the decades of knowledge, experience and research of Dr. Hiltrud Strasser, the first veterinarian and PhD in modern times to clearly describe and teach the permanent, barefoot rehabilitation of equine lameness problems, even those conventionally considered “incurable”.

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Topics in the textbook range from the environmental conditions necessary for equine health to the effects of shoeing, basic anatomy and histology of the locomotor system, conformation and its deviations, contraction including navicular syndrome and the many names applied to caudal foot pain around the world, clubfoot, laminitis, poor hoof quality, thrush, cracks, white line disease, flares, abscessing, hoof canker, ossifications, lameness diagnosis, behavioural problems, the successful rehabilitation of all the common lameness problems, holistic first aid, notes on the safe and effective work habits of a hoofcare provider, and much more.

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