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My mare, Mouse, has a "club foot" (don't know if it's
a true club foot, or a high/low thing. She is trimmed/
shod regularly, but has a short neck, so always does
the splits to reach the ground <shrug>).

I always worried more about her *other* leg - the one
with the "spatula foot" - since that's the one I thought
she'd most likely strain (it has a broken axis).

As it turns out, she ended up straining the suspensory
and superficial digital flexor on the "clubby" side.

Granted there was probably more than just a "clubby" foot
that caused this, but when I went to have her ultrasounded
and commented to the vet about how I'd always worried about
the spatula foot, the vet mentioned something about there
is some speculation that the "clubby" foot grows that way
because the tendons on that leg are naturally tighter, so
it is already under stress and therefore is more prone to
being strained.

No idea if this is true, but along those lines, you'd do
better to put a wedge pad under the "clubby" foot to
relieve some of that tension (and end up with a *really*
gimpy horse ;-)  )


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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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