Is there a correlation between degree of coffin bone rotation and survival?
For a number of years the degree of coffin bone rotation was used as a prognostic indicator as to whether the horse would be usable again. In the past few years this has proven to be an invalid method of evaluating how bad laminitis will be in a horse, and we no longer recommend using this as a prognostic tool. Many horses that have made recoveries and appear to lead fairly normal lives would have been put to sleep using the old guidelines.
