The Day 1 clinic will cover:

• Basic hoof anatomy

• How the hoof works

• Basic tool handling

• Equine Orthopaedic Balance® trimming principles.

The Day 2 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Basic Hoof Pathology; and

• Basic Hoof Biomechanics.

The Day 3 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Basic Equine Anatomy;

• What is Orthopaedic Balance?; and

• The Consequences of Incorrect Orthopaedic Balance.

The Day 4 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Basic Equine Neurology;

• The Central Nervous System;

• The Peripheral Nervous System; and

• Why this is relevant to trimming our horses?

The Day 5 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Basic Equine Locomotion;

• Loading Principles & Locomotion;

• Balance Principles - Long Toe & Low Hind Affect; and

• Basic Limb Flight

The Day 6 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• How to determine the origin of compensation;

• Do you know the basic questions to ask the horse?;

• Postural instability; and

• Orthopaedic balance observation strategy;

• Observation Strategy in the clinical environment.

The Day 7 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• EOB Trimming Principles;

• Optimizing hoof health;

• The adaptable foot;

• Understanding Abnormal Structure; and

• EOB Shoeing Principles

The Day 8 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Traditional farriering principles;

• Consequences of imbalance; and

• Effects of hoof neurology on equine posture

The Day 9 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Dysfunctional pathology;

• The basis of formulating an effective treatment strategy;

• The relationship to Biomechanics of the Equine; and

• Bringing it all together in a clinical environment.

The Day 10 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Orthopaedic Balance & Common Ailments;

• Dysfunctional Pathology – what is really happening inside;

• Internal Macro-Architecture & Consequences; and

• Possible Outcomes and Solutions.

The Day 11 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• How to determine the origin of compensation;

• Do you know the basic questions to ask the horse?;

• Postural instability; and

• Orthopaedic balance observation strategy;

• Observation Strategy in the clinical environment.

The Day 12 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Conformation or Compensation?

• Understand when change is possible;

• Postural instability;

• Consequences of change in center of mass; and

• Central Pattern Generators.

The Day 13 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Treatment Strategies - aims and objectives;

• What could we use to identify dysfunction?

• Basic Equine Locomotion;

• The neuro-muscular reaction on the body's centre of gravity.

The Day 14 clinic will expand your knowledge in:

• Advanced Orthopaedic Trimming Principles;

• The science of equine biophysics;

• Orthopaedic loading of the distal interphalangeal joint;

• EOB’S Orthopaedic Trimming Principles; and

• The interrelationships of hoof balance and biomechanics.

The day will conclude with students receiving their completion certificates and an evening celebrating your achievements.

The Compact Course will expand your knowledge in:

• Advanced Orthopaedic Trimming Principles;

• The science of equine biophysics;

• Orthopaedic loading of the distal interphalangeal joint;

• EOB’S Orthopaedic Trimming Principles; and

• The interrelationships of hoof balance and biomechanics.