02/01/2026
Zašto su mnogi konji osjetljivi na tvrdoj podlozi i kamenčićima?
Zašto visoke pete i skraćivanje prsta ne pomažu i čine konja još osjetljivijim?
Zašto potkove ponekad donesu privremeno olakšanje, ali problem zapravo ostaje?
Zašto zatvaranje u boks i ograničavanje sijena nisu rješenje?
Ova objava ne daje sve odgovore, ali vrlo jasno pokazuje jedan obrazac koji se danas često viđa na kopitima konja.
Obilazeći nove klijente primjećujem da velika većina konja ima izraženo visoke pete.
Isti ti konji vrlo često su osjetljivi na tvrdoj podlozi i kamenčićima.
Kada se pete vrate na razinu koja odgovara anatomiji kopita, kretanje se u pravilu značajno poboljša.
Bez kompliciranih dijagnoza i nepotrebnih intervencija.
Samo vraćanje ravnoteže tamo gdje je izgubljena.
Vlasnici – bacite pogled na kopita svojih konja.
Jesu li pete visoke? Pokazuju li konji osjetljivost kada hodaju po tvrdom i oštrom?
Remember Pluto? He’s been rehabbing at Gawsworth Track Livery for the past 10 months.
His owner was told he had laminitis.
Everyone is taught that laminitis happens like this:
A horse eats something wrong.
Or is exposed to toxins.
The laminae “let go”.
P3 starts to rotate overnight.
The DDFT begins pulling.
From there, the script is familiar:
Box rest.
Deep beds.
Take off the toe to reduce strain.
Leave the heels high - because lowering them would “stress the tendon”.
Remedial shoes. Drugs.
It’s frightening.
It’s dramatic.
It’s usually expensive.
And it’s COMPLETELY wrong in both the diagnosis and the treatment. And that’s why 1000s of horses are lost every year to a disease that doesn’t exist.
Pluto’s exact story has been repeated for decades - not because it’s true, but because it fills a gap in understanding.
👉Pluto’s Reality…
Pluto didn’t wake up one morning with a bone suddenly rotating inside his foot.
He didn’t eat the wrong thing which caused the laminae to suddenly tear.
There were no toxins flooding his system causing P3 to start moving.
The suffering horses like Pluto go through, is now so common that people cannot see the real truth.
It starts with high heels, a distorted hoof capsule, and poor dorsopalmar balance. Toes being shortened. Natural ratios of heel to toe ignored.
That imbalance was masked - briefly - with shoes. Such a common approach.
But as time went on, he became more and more crippled.
Why?
Because he was being forced to move increasingly on the tip of P3, as the back of his foot became rigid and the front of the capsule was shortened again and again.
The laminae didn’t “fail”.
They were ripped and torn because the hoof capsule was no longer aligned with the true anatomical structures inside it.
That tearing was then blamed on “laminitis” caused by… well you name it, there’s an excuse every time!
👉The Great Misdiagnosis
So many horses share Pluto’s fate. And many never make it back to soundness alive.
The story is ALWAYS the same…
👉Hoof capsule imbalance → pain → tearing → blame laminitis → repeat the same damaging approach.
Diet gets blamed.
Toxins get blamed.
The hoof capsule is treated as irrelevant.
Yet the distortion was created by humans, through imbalanced trimming and shoeing to fit an image - not biology.
👉What Actually Fixed Pluto
Nothing dramatic.
Nothing invasive.
Nothing frightening.
We rebalanced his hoof capsule.
That immediately stopped:
• The tearing of the laminae
• The strain on soft tissues and joints
• The forced loading at the toe
Then we allowed the distortion to grow out. No box rest.
No bone was “put back”. It was never able to move freely in the first place.
No tendon was fought.
The system simply began working again.
👉The Uncomfortable Truth
Diet didn’t do this to Pluto.
Toxicity didn’t do this to Pluto.
Poor, imbalanced hoof care did.
And the same poor understanding nearly sent him to his grave. And if his owners hadn’t sent him to GTL, he would have followed countless other equines crippled and pts by ignorance.
We fix horses like Pluto every single day - horses written off by a rhetoric built on fear and misunderstanding.
The myth never existed.
The problem is - and always has been - a hoof capsule allowed to drift out of balance with the biology inside it.
Pluto is nearly ready to go home now. Is he out of the woods?
Yes, if his new HCP keeps on top of the balance.
No, if he’s HCP lets this happen again.
Luckily Pluto will have one of our HMB Pros to keep his capsules balanced to his internal anatomy… but how many equines are not as lucky as him?
Pluto did not recover because laminitis was managed.
He recovered because the myth of laminitis was abandoned.
The bone didn’t move.
The tendon wasn’t the enemy.
Diet wasn’t the cause.
The hoof capsule was put out of balance by humans who blamed their incorrect trimming on diet - then the right humans came along and put it right.
Until the industry accepts this, horses will keep paying the price for a story that was never true. Horses will keep losing their lives, while humans keep causing it and walking away.
This will stop. We will make sure of it.
Awesome rehab Pluto and GTL👏👏💪
HM.
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