Beckie Mabbutt

This case study is of a horse I did about 6 years ago. She underwent a huge amount of trauma to one front foot and subsequently fractured some little chips off the solar surface of the Pedal bone.

The vets operated, scraping away all these small segments of bone, leaving her with an open wound on the bottom of her foot that needed protecting and the dressings regularly changed.

The whole foot needed to be sealed to prevent any dirt getting in, also dressings needed to be held in, so I made up a hospital plate that looked like this.

Then one month later, the affected area formed into proud flesh and was bulging out of the sole causing a lot of discomfort. This was gradually pared away by the vets.

Then amazingly just two months on from this the foot was looking a lot better. It's amazing how quickly the feet can recover. The sole always did grow in a different way in this area but it wasn't long before she was back to full work.