Jenny Creak PhysioVet

11/07/2026

Morning everyone!

I achieved a recent career goal of being invited to speak on a BEVA course from a physiotherapist's perspective on the equine upper limb.

The course was for veterinary surgeons and attended by experienced vets with an orthopaedic focus on elbow and shoulder problems.

I took the opportunity to talk about the thoracic sling; the muscles that hold the forelimb onto the body. As a vet and I physio, I am aware of how little knowledge I had of this important system from my vet school training so thought this would be a great topic.

I created this anatomy puzzle to challenge the vets but was told by the course organisers that it was likely to be too challenging for the vets.

Here is a vet student's attempt. Can anyone see what's right and what's wrong?

This is a reflection of the lack of focus I had on musculature as a vet. As I said to the course delegates, it's not an issue that vets aren't knowledgeable about this, but please involve someone who is in your lameness cases such as a veterinary physiotherapist!

30/03/2026

Can anyone spot the mistake in this post? Gold anatomy star for right answers!

* this was posted on a vet group as an example of misinformation by horsehalo. Pretty embarrassing 😳

22/03/2026

Spooky Sunday Post!

I was recently reunited with Bean and his mum Rihanna after a 2 year interval. Rihanna is a 3rd year vet student at Nottingham Uni and keeps Bean on campus when she's at uni.

I met him to help with a lameness problem in early 2024 and then he went home for while.

Whilst he was at home, Rihanna had an equine communicator to visit him. Now, think what you will, but Bean asked if he could please "see the horse physio from university again".

Believer or not, it brought a tear to my eye!

14/03/2026

It's been a busy week for physiotherapy for me! One horse I treated was Rosie, a gorgeous cob.

Here she is doing the horse version of a burpee 😆

Thanks to El Simpson for letting me post this.

27/01/2026

I've had a last minute cancellation tomorrow at 10.30am if anyone would like physio for their horse!

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24/01/2026

Hi everyone!
I'm away for my wedding anniversary in Rome (Lucky me!) But I cant switch my horse brain off!

Looking at this horse, I can make so many observations. Here are a few of mine..what do you see?

- camped under stance of feet to support back/take weight off heels and load toes
- over the knee stance LF indicating tension through caudal doft tissues such as DDFT, long head triceps, carpal flexors
- nostril wrinkling and ears back indicating discomfort
- unusual triple clip shoe behind
- heel extensions offering lots of caudal support to foot especially on hinds
- effusion/swelling of tarsocrural joint/large hock joint on hindlimb
- high heel, broken forward hoof pastern axis on LH
- underun low heel on FLs
- contracted ventral line and flexed lumbosacral junction/tucked under pelvis

I'd love to give this horse some physio!

16/01/2026

Today I was joined by 2 veterinary physiotherapy students with unusual backgrounds. Claire is training at Nottingham University and is currently a wind turbine engineer. Jane is training at UCLAN and used to be a Detective Inspector in the police.

We had a great discussion about transferable skills such as Jane's ability to solve puzzles like why a horse can't perform a particular thing or, in a previous life, a murder! Whilst Claire views horses through her engineer's eyes looking at their movements in relation to physics.

Everyone brings their own unique perspective!

24/12/2025

Wishing all my lovely clients are very happy Christmas and new year!

I'm looking forward to working with you all next year to do the best we can for the horses we care for.

Thank you for watching, listening and trusting your gut. Every horse I work with teaches me something new and I promise to keep listening and learning!

18/12/2025

Using this app has really helped me to monitor how horses change during each session and to observe objectively accurately, changes over months and years!

New York regulatory veterinarians have been using the Sleip app for 2 ½ years, while Kentucky’s team adopted the technology in March of 2025; California’s regulatory veterinarians added the Sleip app to their arsenal just two weeks ago: https://tinyurl.com/bdzybf5x