Does pedal bone rotation HAVE to cause pain/lameness? I've had nothing much to do with my novice friend's laminitic since she came sound in July; all I know is that she had two sets of X-rays, one when she first showed laminitic signs and one once she had come sound, and both showed no signs of pedal bone rotation.
I've been riding her recently and although she's sound, when picking her feet out I noticed that her pedal bone has rotated - there is a depression a few mm below the coronary band (suggesting it's been there a while and grown down?) and the toe of her sole has become convex (both front feet). She hasn't been significantly lame since her last X-ray but I thought a horse HAD to be lame whilst the bone was rotating?
Sadly her novice owner is becoming stubborn (I am on livery with her at cheap rates so I can help out, but recently she's started not listening as much to my advice...) and would rather take the advice of her friend who has a pony that had laminitis for a week this year and treats the pony in the "old fashioned way" (forced walking, no box rest, starvation diet...) than listen to me (I have a equine degree and have done a lot of research on laminitis and the currently recommended ways of tackling the condition). Therefore her poor horse was taken out in walk and trot for 45 minutes "as normal" after her two and a half months of rest for very, very severe lami. No doubt this is what caused the rotation but that aside, I am baffled as to how the mare wasn't lame??
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