Straight bar

Werkman Straight bar shoes come in a front pattern, unclipped or with side/quarter clips between the 2nd and 3rd nail hole

• The broad, rolled toe shape allow for support and increased break-over
• Werkman Straight bar shoes increase in width with each size, starting at 18mm up to 22mm

Field of application:

• Founder
• Disorders of the deep flexor tendon (flexor digitorum profundus, FDP)
• Disorders of the support ligament of the deep flexor tendon
• Chronic navicular inflammation
• Pain in the distal sesamoid
• Palmar foot pain
• Inflammations of the ligamentous apparatus of the toes
• Hoof cracks

Effect:

• Expansion of the palmar support area without modification to the palmar retractor
• Reduction of the risk of losing the horseshoe due to the hind legs hooking into each other (in comparison with shoeing with palmar extension)
• Increase of the angle of the coffin bone on soft soil
• Reduction of the traction exerted on the deep flexor tendon and a reduced load on the distal sesamoid/navicular
• Without navicular contact: protection of navicular and posterior (palmar) hoof section (distal sesamoid, navicular, attachment of the deep flexor tendon) on all types of soil
• With navicular contact: continual increase of the load-bearing surface in the palmar/plantar hoof section, regardless of the type of soil

Effect was researched in cooperation with the Department of Anatomy of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Leipzig.