Can you relate?
Case study information:
🐴Horse: KWPN mare
🐴Age: 5 years old
🐴Work level: Light work 3-4 days per week. Inhand walk work and hacking
🤷♀️𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 ?
👉 Chronic pelvic asymmetry
👉 Difficulty when being shod for the farrier behind
👉 Behaviour changes when tacking up.
🙋♀️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 𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙨𝙮𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 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 because this mare is only 5 years old. The body is still maturing at this age and I wanted to make sure we were doing the best we could be doing.
❤️Remember that the 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 is always trying to 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙡.
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