To date, each and every one has held up nicely. It’s not recommended, but I have used the boots for light workouts in the round pen, and have allowed the horses pasture time in them , as well. At present, I have three horses in rehab, and all the boots are holding up great. I am also using the Easyboot RX now, and having great results with it. They can be used for rehab, and are a very good boot (for the right foot), on the trail, after the rehab or transition is done. I’ve been using the Eas圜are Boa protective horse boots for years. Then, I did it in six weeks using a Boa boot and frog pad setup, with most of the pain subsiding in just three weeks, and an entire inch of heel decontraction in four weeks! Seeing those kind of results in a horse that was likely one of the most severe cases I’d ever seen was quite a wake-up call. There was a time when I thought six or eight months was a reasonable time frame to relieve Navicular pain. I am convinced that the significant reduction in the time it takes me to relieve a horse’s heel pain is directly related to the improvements in our boot and hoof pad products. There are going to be rehab attempts that fail, but let it not be because we thought so much of our personal skills or philosophy that we didn’t use all the tools at our disposal to relieve the horses’ pain. How many times have you heard that story? For that reason alone, I would think that anyone that could use boots, would do so. These attempts end in a few days with the owner putting the shoes back on, because they can’t stand to watch their animal suffer. Watching the animal in pain at the beginning of the process is hard on the owner, and is probably the main reason that a lot of these rehab attempts fail. Getting a Navicular horse to put his heels down first immediately after pulling shoes is virtually impossible without boots. I have to say that I, too, have rehabbed many Navicular cases without boots over the years, but it was a much longer and bumpier process than the method I use now.”
“I was surprised to learn that some of the brightest stars in this industry don’t use boots in their approach to Navicular rehab. He uses the Eas圜are RX boot and has also used the Eas圜are Boa boots. Steve Karshner wrote a great article about rehabing Navicular hooves with the use of boots.
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