Gunderman Farrier Service

05/06/2025

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05/05/2025

It’s amazing what can be accomplished with a team of exceptional veterinarians. The healing on this horse is nothing short of incredible!!

We periodically come across cases that are too compelling not to share. This patient was treated for a chronic wound that failed to heal. After more than a year of attempting to alleviate the horse's condition, the owners reached out to us. The healing progression is apparent, and we attribute this success to our outstanding team. Special acknowledgement is extended to Carrey Gunderman, Hilltop Bio, and the doctors at Elite Equine, as our patient achieved substantial progress over six weeks and is expected to return to normal activities.

05/01/2025

04/26/2025

Confirmation, physics, amd physiology, are CONFUSING! This horse had a check ligament surgery early in life to correct a club foot confirmation. This resulted in the outward appearance of a club foot with a negative palmer angle, a knee that is unstable and an extremely upright pastern. Simply wedging this horse did not result in desired alignment, continued discomfort and worsened thee knee stability. The idea was sound but needed more thought. A rocker shoe would allow the needed lift and dorsal supprt for the knee. Although this was helpful it wasn’t a complete success, the coffin bone angle mildly improved but the pastern was still very upright continuing to cause a broke back pastern axis. A wedged frog support pad was added to increase function of the digital cushion lifting the palmer angle internally which helped adjust the pastern alignment. This was also a great idea but the knee was unstable again. The back third of the pad was ground down to allow wedge under the coffin bone itself and not add excessive lift to the heels allowing the knee to lock out and still stimulate the digital cushion. Moral of the story: guess A LOT until the answers come! 🤙
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04/13/2025

04/07/2025

Monday funday!!! 😅

03/03/2025

Mondays we work at Elite Equine Veterinary Services, a lameness and rehabilitation clinic. Today a commercial was being shot and my associate Jason Simmons got 15 minutes of fame.