{"product_id":"the-pivot-point","title":"The Pivot Point","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMost lower-limb lameness in the horse is mechanical in origin. Mechanical problems can be measured, calculated and corrected — but only by a practitioner who can say what a shoe will do before it goes on, and check afterwards whether it did.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pivot Point\u003c\/em\u003e builds that capability in three layers. \u003cstrong\u003eMeasurement\u003c\/strong\u003e: nine things to take off a foot with a gauge and a straight edge, none of them anything a farrier is not already looking at. \u003cstrong\u003eCalculation\u003c\/strong\u003e: turning those measurements into the loading the foot actually carries, at the gait and on the ground the horse works on. \u003cstrong\u003ePrescription\u003c\/strong\u003e: twelve geometric formulas that change that loading by a stated amount.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBuilt on the biomechanics literature of the past thirty years and the proportional hoof-balance data of Caldwell's 2017 PhD at the University of Liverpool, the book runs from forces and force couples, through pathology as a consequence of loading state, to a fully worked clinical case followed to the third review visit — and on to what happens to the prescription as the foot grows through the shoeing cycle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNot farrier versus veterinary surgeon: both, together, working from the same physics. For practising farriers, farriery students and equine veterinary surgeons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e184 pages · 43 illustrations · twelve prescription formulas · glossary and index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BookVAULT Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67709692379440,"sku":"9781808970382","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-pivot-point","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}