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04/03/2025

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03/20/2025

Day 3 of treatment for eye injury

03/18/2025

It's all about coming together

02/11/2025

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01/28/2025

Student question :
Why do we see so many over pronounced tensor fascia latae muscles in horses even when they are not moving ?

Simple incorrect motion and loading of the hindlimb. If you see an over developed or over pronounced tensor fascia latae muscles chances are your horse's femur is unstable during the loading phase of the gate cycle.

Ilium position affects muscle function. Ilium position in most horses is unbalanced between left and right creating a shear through the pelvic.

Example - When one of the iliums rotates medial and cranial ( in and up), two muscles become challenged because of poor position to counteract each other, for stable femoral loading.

Their effectiveness in keeping the pelvis or acetabulum positioned correctly over the hock is lost, because the psoas has to work harder as an external rotator to keep the femur lined up with the foot.

This leads to the psoas and tensor fascia latae now becoming the primary femoral and hip stabilizers through ilium rotation instead of the gluteals. We can clearly see this when we have these very prominent tensor fascia latae muscles.

So if your tensor fascia latae muscles are over pronounced , chances are your horse is struggling with hind limb stability.

01/22/2025

This will help some understand the graston which is what we do on our equine and human patients
Fascia- tissue paper thin tissue that can make your horses body (& ours) as happy or as unhappy as can be.
Head to tail to toes- EVERYTHING CONNECTS. Treat the body as a whole.
"Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve Tiber and muscle in place. The tissue does more than provide internal structure; fascia has nerves that make it almost as sensitive as skin."
So when you have a trauma related injury, a bad fall, or structural damage, things move. You might bring a chiropractor in to help your athlete out, rightfully so.
Well when they "don't hold their adjustment" it's typically because fascia has already adjusted things internally and re-learned how to be wrong instead of correct. So we have to release the fascia in order for the body to learn how to be correct again. Bring in Acuscope/Myopulse. We can help the body do some fascia release! My chiropractors, osteopaths ect.
Find that when I work on them before or after, things go hand in hand, and results stay put.



" - The left side is balanced and correct.
The right side, somewhere, something (fascia) is holding/ pulling on part of the body and throwing the whole body off. Causing over compensation, soreness, ect. Credit to acuscope by Ashley

01/15/2025

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01/06/2025

Can we talk about bridle fit for a hot second? 🔥🔥⚡️

Last night after I was done working on a horse I got visiting with the barn owner as she helped one of her students try a few saddles on her horse and rode her around with those saddles. As we were visiting my eye kept getting drawn to the bridle on this horse (which I could just tell was bugging her) which further stimulated conversation about equipment fitting your horse.

Unfortunately the way this bridle is designed along with the fact that this particular horse has a relatively small head, it is very obvious that this piece of tack needs to be changed.

Upon touching the base of this horse's ear with the slightest touch she whipped her head away from my hand.

So what is going on here?

1. The browband is too wide and too short for this particular horse. This browband is sitting on the temporal bone, which connects with the mandible to make up the temporomandibular joint that we can see right next to the buckle on the cheek piece. It is also going to interfere with the function of the temporal muscle and auricular muscles that attach to the base of the ear.

2. The buckle of the cheek piece is sitting right next to and almost on top of the TMJ. this will not only interfere with the motion of the joint but will also interfere with the function of the facial nerve and its associated branches, as well as the the trigeminal nerve and its associated branches (and many other cranial nerves), along with the parotid gland.

The facial nerve is responsible for motor function to muscles of the face as well as sensory input to the tongue and if damaged, compressed or impinged can cause excessive drooling, and facial asymmetry as well as partial paralysis of the tongue.

The trigeminal nerve has three branches: the maxillary, mandibular and ophthalmic. (can you guess where these go and what they do?) It is well known that the trigeminal nerve can cause head shaking when irritated. The trigeminal N. is also very closely linked to the vagal and the accessory nerves. So now we are getting into the whole body by once again only talking about nerve pathways and not even considering the blood supply to this area, the muscles that are here, or how the endocrine system responds to the stress of an irritated nerve.

3. Where the browband and the crown piece come together is sitting right on top of the base of the greater auricular nerve that runs up the caudal lateral side of the ear. No wonder her ears are sensitive with all the nerves that are being irritated.

What about all the other Cranial nerves that follow this pathway? If you really wanted I could probably even link you to how this could affect the motion in your hind limb since I haven't even got to the fascia lines yet...but we would be here all day !

Is it any wonder I am finding a TON of ears that are restricted if their bridles are not fitting around the base of their ear ? (And let me tell you those are STUCK little gremlins!)

So what is the solution?

For this particular horse a different bridle altogether would be preferable. Something with a longer, narrower, browband or a one ear bridle. Also something with a shorter cheek piece so that the buckle does not interfere with the TMJ would be ideal.

Know better, do better!

01/06/2025

01/05/2025

“Victimhood robs you of your true potential.”

“You should never allow your struggles to become part of your identity.”

When you turn your struggles into your identity, it makes you resent people that didn’t have the same struggles you did. You feel like life has been unfair to you, while life has been easy for them.

Another thing this does is makes you think that leaving your struggle behind, is betraying your identify and I see that happen… all the time.

It makes someone not want to celebrate other peoples success, because they feel like their struggles have earned them the right to the spotlight. That mentality robs you of your potential and opportunities. It also robs you of your enjoyment of other people’s success.

What a great New Year’s resolution to bring into 2025… please consider leaving your struggles behind, and if you are in the midst of a struggle, recognize that that struggle is only temporary, and should not define you. - Willful Positivity