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How to know if your horse has problem hooves?

As an Equine Myofunctional Therapist dealing daily with equine musculo-skeletal problems and through Equethy workshops (who have now delivered hundreds of workshops all over Australia in the past seven years), I have had the pleasure to meet many horse owners who turned to barefoot rehabilitation.

he comment I hear all the time after they see the dramatic changes that occur both in hooves and bodies is ?I wish I had known how to spot hoof problems earlier.... I could have helped my horse years ago instead of wasting all that time while he was getting steadily worse......I feel like such an idiot!"

I tell them "don't" because you are not alone. I was just the same at one time until I learned a little hoof anatomy.

Many horse owners know instinctively that their horses are ?not quite right. They ask their farrier who says ?well he doesn?t have great feet but just keep him shod and he will be OK.?

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