Yes.
In Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot, Dr Robert Bowker describes an experiment in which horses stood on concrete or on a rubber stall mat. When standing on the softer rubber mat, the horse's area of loading was more than double that of standing on concrete, and the pressure on the solar foot when standing on the rubber mat was reduced to less than one third of the pressure when standing on concrete.
Conforming bedding such as sawdust or sand should always be used, but soft rubber mats beneath the bedding rather than concrete will reduce the pressure on damaged structures of the feet should the horse dig through the bedding.
In Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot, Dr Robert Bowker describes an experiment in which horses stood on concrete or on a rubber stall mat. When standing on the softer rubber mat, the horse's area of loading was more than double that of standing on concrete, and the pressure on the solar foot when standing on the rubber mat was reduced to less than one third of the pressure when standing on concrete.
Conforming bedding such as sawdust or sand should always be used, but soft rubber mats beneath the bedding rather than concrete will reduce the pressure on damaged structures of the feet should the horse dig through the bedding.
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