Can you relate?
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Case study information:
🐴Horse: Cob
🐴Age: 12 years old
🐴Work level: Medium work. 4-5 days per week. Hacking, schooling and light jumping.
🤷♀️𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 ?
👉 Rider noticed that the horse is lacking power into the jumps
👉 The trainer has noted that the canter right is weaker than the left
👉 Behaviour changes when tacking up.
👉 Started touching poles behind
🙋♀️𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵?
🙌 After listening to the owner
✅ Full history was taken
👀Observation of the horse in the stable,
🐴 Assessment of all three paces,
🙏 Full body palpation looking for areas of heat, tension and patterns of compensation,
I was drawn to a 𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙧 - 𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙘 𝙙𝙮𝙨𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣
👆The pictures above show 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, roughly 45mins apart. A full body treatment was performed with tailored exercises given to help support and body immediately after treatment.
👆Further communication with the vet and farrier was carried out to ensure that the gelding had optimum support behind.
❤️Remember that the 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 is always trying to 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡.
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