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| History of grooving procedures A literature search has found two references to early
accounts of hooves being grooved in the treatment of laminitis or
founder. I'm not advocating these procedures should be used today, but I
have included them for completeness and as evidence that grooving
procedures described in the past seem to have offered pain relief or
aided the laminitic equine. The reliability these accounts is difficult
to determine.
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| In 1683, Andrew Snape's book
Anatomy of an horse
was published, written in the English of the day it's difficult to read
but he makes a passing reference to rasping five or six grooves into the
hoof wall of foundered horses and claims good results for the procedure.
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| In 1906, H Coulton Reeks makes a reference to Smith's
operation in his book Diseases of the horses foot, I believe this
account inspired Burney Chapman to develop the dorsal wall resection
procedure, again the author claims good results. |
| In 1990, farrier Ken Stretton was using a procedure
similar to the one described by Andrew Snape. |
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