
Teeth
Routine dental care is essential to maintaining your horses health. Horses teeth continue to erupt throughout their life and are meant to...
Routine dental care is essential to maintaining your horses health. Horses teeth continue to erupt throughout their life and are meant to...
There’s a lot of talk about wanting a “swinging back”, and emphasis on big lateral movement. To keep that theory in perspective I think...
There are many theories behind HH/LH but the one I get behind is Dr. Kerry Ridgway’s. It’s the theory of laterality in horses. Just like...
Upward fixation of the patella and stifle dysfunction Stifles; analogous to our human knee and prone to nearly as many problems. One...
Good posture is paramount to long term soundness and joint health. Signs of poor posture: Dropped/swayed back Uneven leg stance Base wide...
Conformation: is the size and shape of the skeletal structure. Posture: is how the horse arranges himself Standing and in movement....
Did you know I can also help you assess your saddle fit? I can show you how and where your saddle should fit based on your horses unique...
Most horses do not lack flexibility, they lack strength. 🤯 ✋ Now I’m not advocating against stretching. Stretching has many benefits....
Just because a muscle is sore or reactive does not mean it needs to be released 🤯. Often muscles are tight and sore because they are...
When a muscle is injured and heals it creates a fibrosis(the formation of fibrous muscle tissue). This tissue is restrictive, inelastic...
The temperatures are heating up and with restrictions lifting your horses are no doubt getting more workouts. It’s important to have a...
Repetitive maneuvers cause repetitive stresses and a lack in diversity of strength. Take you horse out for a trail ride. Its one of the...
Scars are something I deal with a lot in my work. We often look at scars as “healed”, problem solved. The truth is scars create problem...
🦟 Since it’s officially fly season let’s talk about the “fly twitcher” muscles formally known as the cutaneous muscles! I’m sure you’ve...
The Importance of the “Thoracic Sling” Unlike people horses don’t have a collar bone or any sort of a boney connection between their...
Some food for thought on an effective warm up routine. We’ve always been taught to first walk, then trot, and then canter the horse and...
I thought this might be an interesting point to write about since I’m currently experiencing this first hand after tearing my ACL, and...
Unfortunately last week my facebook account was hacked and the hackers posted some content that got my accounts deleted and me banned...