A fellow Strasser alumni posted that she had recently attended the Hoofcare Summit in Cincinatti where Gene Ovnicek gave a program on trimming under-run hooves that was decidedly like a Strasser trim! The presenters at this function are usually vets and farriers given to other vets and farriers. He used "opening cuts" which were invented by Strasser and advised trimming the heels and bars down "bordering on surgery" (his words) He also mentioned checking with thumb pressure to make sure you weren't too thin.
Then there was another post where a trimmer had a client that called a vet on her "navicular" horse. After she told the vet she was pursuing a barefoot route to curing her horse and wanted to know what parameters the trim should include. Guess what the vet said?  Lower heels, trim bars way down and use opening cuts...!!!??? So now we have vets and farriers that are advocating something that we Strasser-trained trimmers have been doing all along! Apparently Pete Ramey is also advocating opening cuts in his video. He "discovered" that this technique helped to open up contracted heels. Well DUH!!! Strassser again!
 


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