Heart Bar Shoes For Horses

A horse will generally need only a couple of shoeing s in this type of shoe as it encourages the heels to grow down.

Heart bar shoes for horses.

Heart bar shoes are used to treat several different diseases of the foot. These shoes are designed to apply pressure to the frog which in turn applies pressure to the pedal bone which will then push the pedal bone back up into position. The heart bar shoe or frog support shoe is a versatile therapeutic application that offers relief to afflicted horses from a variety of conditions. A serious affliction of horses today is laminitis and founder.

Jim blurton heart bar shoe. Heart bar shoes have a plate which extends over the frog and is usually fitted to apply various levels of pressure on the frog. When the duo of burney chapman and george platt popularized the use of heart bar shoes for foundered and laminitic horses in the late 1960s it set off a firestorm of innovations and design styles for therapeutic horseshoes that reinvigorated the hoof care industry. When the foot is off the ground there should be little to no pressure between the shoe at the toe illustrated here by sliding a ruler between the shoe and foot.

Heart bar shoes are used for a horse that has laminitis. A properly fit heart bar shoe should transfer weight to the back of the horse s foot. For example for use on horses with severe cracks or other lameness complications when reducing the amount of movement in the hoof capsule can be beneficial. With heart bar shoes frog support and the transference of weight bearing pressures are key components for successfully using the shoe as a therapeutic device.