Ive been fighting this for several years now on my good barrel horse. Tried several different types of shoes but all end up crushing his heels. Has been suggested to go to a 3 degree aluminum wedge with more shoe sticking out behind his heel. Any other suggestions? He’s also been on Biotin 100 over a year. Thanks for any help.

You need Xrays first to check digital break over, palmar angle and medial lateral balance. In most cases I’m not concerned with making feet “match”, I want good breakover and positive palmar angle. Wedging wouldn’t be my first go to, and I would never do it without X-rays. Sometimes he upright foot needs work as well when you X-ray it.

somerimes there’s an injury or, even Suspensory soreness, can cause a foot to become upright. Unless this horse has had this problem all his life, I would investigate the cause and try to address it. Fixing the problem in

tue upright leg might help the other foot as much as anything.

In these cases often times the low foot is closer to healthy than the high foot but instead most farriers try to match the low to the high. X rays are needed to see what is going on inside both feet.

Thanks for the input. The horse had had check ligament surgery on the upright foot and xrays on the flat foot show the angle needs to come uo.

My gelding had a mild case of this ever since I bought him.  I had x-rays done during his pre-purchase exam and his angles were fine, nothing concerning showed up in any of his pictures and I did front feet, knees, neck, back, stifles, front/hind fetlocks, and hocks. At about a year into owning him, he kicked up over a board and tweaked his stifle. Instead of using my normal (but very good) chiropractor, I started having him worked on by a Structural Integration Specialist - we worked through his whole body in four sessions over the course of 8 weeks - she was able to release adhesions/fascia that had been there since he was young. His feet are now even which I am pleasantly surprised about, not to mention how much happier and free-moving he is.

I highly recommend this type of body work for both your horse and yourself. I have thoracic outlet syndrome plus severe bicep tendonititis in both arms and this work has been the only therapy to provide some lasting improvement. Plus, I broke my back almost 16 years ago which resulted in limited range of motion and I have gotten a true 60% back and I'm not even done with my full series. 

Where to you get the structural integration done?

I have mine adjusted by a very good chiropractor also but would love to know where I could get this other done. Please either pm me or post where your person lives. Thanks 

I live in NW Washington State and the lady that I use lives up here.  I'll attach a list of practitioners that went the the same school that she did. Contact them if you don't see someone in your area.

https://equinenaturalmovement.com/update/

I would suggest meeting a farrier at a clinic, one of the ones they use for their clinic cases, and every 5 weeks get laterals and then have the farrier reset him.  It's going to be a lifelong ongoing, constant battle.