EqUus'Sens : Bien-être et bien connaître

18/09/2025

16/09/2025

This is a really helpful image we found online, that shows how beans can affect the flow of urine.

🐎 DISCLAIMER - it is not our image, so if it is yours please do tag yourselves to take the credit for such a helpful picture 🐎

Beans do not form inside the urethra, rather in a pocket NEXT to it. So as the bean is building up, depending on how it is lodged, it pushes up against the urethra, squashing it.

Size is irrelevant, it doesn’t have to be a big bean for it to push against the urethra and impact how the horse urinates. The horse can also have a huge bean and it cause no issue whatsoever to the flow of urine. So if your horse is urinating normally, it does not mean he doesn’t have one.

When it does cause trouble for them in regards to urinating, it can cause your horse to then not want to drink as much water as they normally would - as you can imagine, this can then lead to further issues for your horse.
This is why you sometimes see your horse chugging a load of water post bean removal.

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16/09/2025

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21/08/2025

The Body Doesn’t Lie

I’m a little (a lot) increasingly worried and frustrated about the postures I am seeing horses worked in. I saw a post yesterday of a horse being worked in side reins comparing day one of using them to day two; day one — bracing; day two — horse sucking behind the side reins, opening mouth, compressing the wither (and everything else) to avoid pressure.

The day before that, one professional rider riding a 4 year old hyperflexed with draw reins in one clip and a tight martingale in another.

The day before that, a client told me that another therapist had told them to just shut their horses mouth with a flash to stop contact evasions… when in fact this horse is experiencing significant discomfort.

Today, a video saying if your horse leans on the contact to just give them a sharp upward motion of the rein to get them to sit back… because there surely isn’t a physical or rider issue why they do that!?

IF you DON’T think what you are doing is wrong, LOOK and FEEL your horse.

If you’re ignoring their signals in every other way, their body won’t lie. If you’re doing everything right, they’ll look right.

If you’re constantly battling with the same issues, if your physio keeps noticing a tight poll/lacking muscle/stiffness, if you can see your horses ligament clicking and flicking over the top of their neck every time you change bend, please please widen the gaze and realise — this is not right, this is not normal for their body, what is going wrong?

There is no shame in breaking away from a trainer you’ve used for years; or changing from a saddle you once loved to a new one; or giving your horse a little while off whilst you sort your body out and make sure you’re not hindering them. This is the part of the “sport” (I hate that word in this context) that has been so massively overlooked of late.

Even if you’re a professional rider only riding a horse for 30 mins a week, we are our horses GUARDIANS on this planet. Every interaction means we should care for every part of them whole heartedly. If something isn’t right, they will try and tell us however they can — big or small.

Speech and panic over… resume your day 🙃

19/08/2025

19/08/2025

✂️Les adhérences de castration > Souvent considérées comme un mythe, les adhérences font partie des complications de la castration du cheval. Peu d'études en font état même si 20% des vétérinaires français les observent.
>> Une étude rétrospective descriptive des cas d'adhérence de castration traités entre 2007 et 2016 a été réalisée ⤵️

𝗨𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗲 𝟮𝟬 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘂𝘅 ont été traités pour adhérences de castration, la plupart utilisés en sport, en moyenne 30 mois après avoir été castrés. Les adhérences observées étaient 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁é𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟴 𝗰𝗮𝘀, 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗮𝘁é𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝟭𝟮.
Les troubles observés étaient de la 𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗴𝗶𝗲 (22%), une 𝗴ê𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁é𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗲 (56%), un œ𝗱è𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂 (33%), des 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝘂 𝘀𝗮𝘂𝘁 𝗱'𝗼𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗹𝗲 (17%) et des 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (22%)

La formation d'une adhérence fibreuse entre le cordon et la peau du sc***um suite à la castration fait partie du phénomène cicatriciel normal. Toutefois, celle-ci peut parfois s'avérer gênante, notamment lorsque le membre du côté de l'adhérence est porté en hyperextension.

𝘗𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘪 ?
Il existe une connexion entre les nerfs participant à l’innervation testiculaire, la cavité abdominale et les psoas : 𝗹𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗳 𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗼-𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹. Ce nerf émerge du muscle psoas, traverse l’abdomen en longeant le muscle carré des lombes, puis chemine entre les muscles obliques interne et externe de l’abdomen avant de pénétrer le canal inguinal. 𝗟𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗳 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼-𝗳é𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 provenant de L1-L2 vers le sc***um est lui aussi impacté.
Une adhérence de cicatrisation pourra impacter :
💢les muscles psoas et carré des lombes
💢le fascia thoraco-lombaire ainsi que les muscles s’insérant sur cette zone
💢les muscles abdominaux

Il est donc important de prendre en charge les cicatrices de castrations et le massage est une bonne alternative pour résoudre ces troubles 💆‍♀️

18/08/2025