28/08/2024
Webinar om hestens overlinie!
Et online seminar hvor du lærer om hestens overlinie (nakke, hals, ryg og bagpart), så du selv er i stand til at vurdere om hesten bruger sig korrekt eller ej.
Yasmin Stuart Equine Physio er uddannet fysioterapeut til heste, samt Balance Through Movement Method & Nerve Release Practitioner.
Som Yasmin selv skriver, hvis hesten har muskelspændinger omkring nakke og ryg, vil det bærende system, bestående af et ligament der løber langs overlinien af hesten, ikke kunne udføre sit arbejde. På sigt vil give smerte, øget spænding og eventuelt en ændring af vævet.
Dette er nok det jeg oplever mest af, når jeg kommer ud i de danske stalde... Heldigvis oplever jeg også en kæmpe interesse fra hesteejeres side, for at uddanne sig og lære en masse, i ønsket om at passe på hesten.
Så selvom vi træner hesten efter at opnår bæring over ryggen, kræver det også, at vi er i stand til at se, om det rent faktisk har den ønskede effekt.
Jeg glæder mig selv til at se, hvordan Yasmin formidler emnet 🙂
Tilmelding foregår via et link i kommentar feltet. Det koster ca 200kr, og bliver optaget, så man kan se det efterfølgende.
When your horse lowers their head to the height of their withers, the funnicular portion of their nuchal ligament (the cord like structure which runs from their withers to their poll) will traction on their supraspinous ligament (which runs over the top of their thoracic and lumbar spinous processes).
As the nuchal ligament tractions on the supraspinous ligament, the early thoracic spinous processes draw forwards and apart.
As the horse steps under from behind, via engaging the hindlimbs and shortening through their abdominals, the supraspinous ligament over the lumbar spinous processes will traction towards the horse's tail, drawing their lumbar spinous processes backwards and apart.
These are key mechanisms in kissing spines rehabilitation.
However - if your horse has muscular tension around the neck and back muscles, the efficacy of this ligament system may be inhibited, potentially creating pain and, if prolonged, tissue remodelling (e.g. ligament thickening, lesions or bony adaptation).
This means that, whilst we can look at training practices set to target supporting these systems - you have to be able to OBSERVE if the exercises are actually acheiving the desired effect.
You can track your eye over your horse's topline and see where the dysfunction might be occuring by literally looking at the skeletal and soft tissue system at a standstill and in motion.
I think this has to be one of my favourite assessment tools to help me to help horses with their movement ❤️
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Want to learn how to do this?
Join me in my next live webinar where you will learn exactly how to do this and:
- How to feel for muscle wastage even in horses that are overweight
- How to see compression points throughout the horse's topline
- How to determine if your horse should be ridden or not.
02.09.2024 19:00 BST
Recording available after the event if you can't attend live!
