Founder vs Laminitis
Q. - I hear a lot of people use the words laminitis and founder interchangeably. Are these two conditions the same thing?
A. - That's a more difficult question to answer than you might expect,
because the two terms are used interchangeably by a lot of people.
However, "founder" implies more of the chronic condition, or the horse
that has already had its coffin bone rotate or sink. That is classically
a "foundered" horse, versus a laminitic horse that has the onset
inflammation of the laminae, which support the coffin bone within the
hoof capsule.
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