Is This A Training Issue Or Is She In Pain? 

I agree. I was amazed.

@edelm. So true.🤗

Judging from the way the owner corrected herself on what type of bag it was, it sounded more like she'd simply misspoke "paper" when she'd meant plastic. I do the same thing, and it's not because I'm being untruthful - it's because sometimes something gets crosswired between the brain and the mouth and a word you don't even intend to say comes out. Which you then have to correct to the actual truthful word, that being the word you'd originally intended to say to begin with. Such verbal mishaps occur more often, in my experience, when you're retelling something you've been told, and so are more focused on memory than precise wording. And considering the owner wasn't actually there when it happened, and is retelling something someone else told her, it's pretty understandable that there was a word mishap. Not all instances of someone having to correct a word they used is from anything suspicious. Often enough, it's just an honest mistake.

In this video and others on the channel, Emily's referred to as working in "equine rehab". So looking for equine rehab might get you better results.

In the video, it was explained that the reason for the wedge is because the heels of each front foot are broken - the wedge is there to bring the hooves into their natural position, not to raise a hoof to the level of the other. When the heels are broken, that drops the heels outside of their natural alignment, putting added strain on the tendons (if this gets bad enough, it can even cause the tendons to eventually snap, which is permanent and usually means having to put down the horse) - the wedge counters this. If one wedge is higher than the other, then that means one heel is more broken than the other. The objective with broken heels and wedging, is to give the heel time to recover while alleviating pain and preventing the occurance of a far worse problem (because without wedges, the heels likely won't recover, and that will lead to a plethora of lamness issues). The wedges are also supposed to be temporary and made smaller over time - the goal is to have the heels heal to the extent where the horse no longer requires wedges to be in proper alignment. To my awareness, you don't solve club feet with wedges, that didn't work because it was probably the completely wrong treatment to begin with (since it would be bringing the non-club foot _out_ of its natural alignment to do so). When it comes to cases like these, you want a farrier that specializes in corrective shoeing (these are rare), not just any random who can put nails in a hoof wall. It's not the treatment in and of itself that was the problem. It's that if you give someone a treatment that doesn't apply, it'll make them worse, but give the treatment to someone it does apply to, it'll make them better. Something not being a cure-all in areas where it doesn't apply doesn't make it evil. Just means it doesn't apply in that area.

Because she watched how the horse was moving and could tell that's where the problem was. Knowledge of anatomy and experience in other words.

She did investigate the hind end, too, on both sides, and the front is where she found the trouble.