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I'm back after a long break!I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so ma...
19/02/2024

I'm back after a long break!

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:

Enhances Muscle Tone
Increases Range of Motion (flexibility)
Improves Performance
Relieves Muscle Tension
Reduces the risk of injury
Promotes healing
Improves Recovery time after illness
Promotes Lymphatic drainage.

Appointment includes evaluation, sports massage and follow up report.
Veterinary permission is required. DM me for more details

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways: Enhances Muscle Ton...
17/10/2021

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:
Enhances Muscle Tone
Increases Range of Motion (flexibility)
Improves Performance
Relieves Muscle Tension
Reduces the risk of injury
Promotes healing
Improves Recovery time after illness
Promotes Lymphatic drainage.
Appointment includes evaluation, sports massage and follow up report.
Veterninary permission is required. PM me for more details

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse.Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:    Enhances Muscle T...
06/06/2021

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse.
Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:
Enhances Muscle Tone
Increases Range of Motion (flexibility)
Improves Performance
Relieves Muscle Tension
Reduces the risk of injury
Promotes healing
Improves Recovery time after illness
Promotes Lymphatic drainage.
Appointment includes evaluation, sports massage and follow up report.
Veterninary permission is required. PM me for more details
Group booking discount

A very useful article
01/06/2021

A very useful article

14/05/2020
25/05/2019
Lovely day yesterday catching up with my friend Squiz.❤️ Lots of tension release, happy horse 🙂
17/03/2019

Lovely day yesterday catching up with my friend Squiz.❤️ Lots of tension release, happy horse 🙂

Interesting read
24/02/2019

Interesting read

I’m sure you are all familiar with the concept of Straightness as one of the elements of the German  FN Training Scale. Those of you who are rooted in the French tradition know it as one of Alexis L’Hotte’s three main training principles (Calm, Forward, Straight). You have probably also r...

So true  Charlie Mackesy
04/01/2019

So true Charlie Mackesy

Interesting research
25/11/2018

Interesting research

This is an absolute must read for every horse owner and especially those with younger horses!
People can certainly debate and argue over different training techniques and styles but we can not argue the science.

"Owners and trainers need to realize there's a definite, easy-to-remember schedule of fusion - and then make their decision as to when to ride the horse based on that rather than on the external appearance of the horse.
For there are some breeds of horse - the Quarter Horse is the premier among these - which have been bred in such a manner as to LOOK mature long before they actually ARE mature. This puts these horses in jeopardy from people who are either ignorant of the closure schedule, or more interested in their own schedule (for futurities or other competitions) than they are in the welfare of the animal.

The process of fusion goes from the bottom up. In other words, the
lower down toward the hoofs you look, the earlier the growth plates will have fused; and the higher up toward the animal's back you look, the later. The growth plate at the top of the coffin bone (the most distal bone of the limb) is fused at birth. What this means is that the coffin bones get no TALLER after birth (they get much larger around, though, by another mechanism). That's the first one. In order after that:

2. Short pastern - top & bottom between birth and 6 mos.
3. Long pastern - top & bottom between 6 mos. And 1 yr.
4. Cannon bone - top & bottom between 8 mos. And 1.5 yrs.
5. Small bones of knee - top & bottom on each, between 1.5 and 2.5 yrs.
6. Bottom of radius-ulna - between 2 and 2.5 yrs.
7. Weight-bearing portion of glenoid notch at top of radius - between 2.5 and 3 yrs.
8. Humerus - top & bottom, between 3 and 3.5 yrs.
9. Scapula - glenoid or bottom (weight-bearing) portion - between 3.5 and 4 yrs.
10. Hindlimb - lower portions same as forelimb
11. Hock - this joint is "late" for as low down as it is; growth plates on the tibial & fibular tarsals don't fuse until the animal is four (so
the hocks are a known "weak point" - even the 18th-century literature warns against driving young horses in plow or other deep or sticky footing, or jumping them up into a heavy load, for danger of spraining their hocks)
12. Tibia - top & bottom, between 2.5 and 3 yrs.
13. Femur - bottom, between 3 and 3.5 yrs.; neck, between 3.5 and 4 yrs.; major and 3rd trochanters, between 3 and 3.5 yrs.
14. Pelvis - growth plates on the points of hip, peak of croup (tubera sacrale), and points of buttock (tuber ischii), between 3 and 4 yrs.

and what do you think is last? The vertebral column, of course. A
normal horse has 32 vertebrae between the back of the skull and the root of the dock, and there are several growth plates on each one, the most important of which is the one capping the centrum.

These do not fuse until the horse is at least 5 1/2 years old (and this figure applies to a small-sized, scrubby, range-raised mare. The taller your horse and the longer its neck, the later full fusion will occur. And for a male - is this a surprise? -- You add six months. So, for example, a 17-hand TB or Saddlebred or WB gelding may not be fully mature until his 8th year - something that
owners of such individuals have often told me that they "suspected" ).

The lateness of vertebral "closure" is most significant for two
reasons.
One: in no limb are there 32 growth plates!
Two: The growth plates in the limbs are (more or less) oriented perpendicular to the stress of the load passing through them, while those of the vertebral chain are oriented parallel to weight placed upon the horse's back.

Bottom line: you can sprain a horse's back (i.e., displace the
vertebral growth plates) a lot more easily than you can sprain those located in the limbs.

And here's another little fact: within the chain of vertebrae, the
last to fully "close" are those at the base of the animal's neck
(that's why the long-necked individual may go past 6 yrs. to achieve
full maturity). So you also have to be careful - very careful - not to
yank the neck around on your young horse, or get him in any situation where he strains his neck."

Dr. Deb Bennett

ABOUT DR. DEB: Deb Bennett, Ph.D., is a 1984 graduate of the University of Kansas, and until 1992 was with the Smithsonian Institution. She is known as an authority on the classification, evolution, anatomy, and biomechanics of fossil and living horses. Her research interests include the history of domestication and world bloodlines and breeds. She teaches unique anatomy short-courses and horsemanship clinics designed to be enjoyable to riders of all breeds and disciplines, and all levels of skill.

Internationally known for her scientific approach to conformation analysis, "Dr. Deb" has made a career out of conveying a kind of "X-ray vision" for bone structure to breeders and buyers. Her background in biomechanics helps her clearly explain how conformation relates to performance ability. Dr. Deb's clinics often feature real bones and interesting biomechanical models.

Still best friends ❤️ and living out 24/7 again
11/11/2018

Still best friends ❤️ and living out 24/7 again

Practicing some Reiki healing on my friends horse morning - 5 minutes before this he was cantering around his field, and...
13/09/2018

Practicing some Reiki healing on my friends horse morning - 5 minutes before this he was cantering around his field, and starting to stress, I managed to get him to relax and then lower his head, a good result :)

Skeleton Stan displaying his talents, at the hairy pony camp. We did a bit of Anatomy , a liberty warm up and then handy...
11/08/2018

Skeleton Stan displaying his talents, at the hairy pony camp. We did a bit of Anatomy , a liberty warm up and then handy hints and tips for massaging your own pony :)

Cleo very chilled after Reiki treatment today :)
17/06/2018

Cleo very chilled after Reiki treatment today :)

09/05/2018
Interesting article on fascia.
21/12/2017

Interesting article on fascia.

Massaging elephants in Nepal 😊😊😊
06/12/2017

Massaging elephants in Nepal 😊😊😊

Recommend this course
31/10/2017

Recommend this course

Very informative weekend with Russell Guire and Mark Fisher.  And the lovely Commordore 😊
22/10/2017

Very informative weekend with Russell Guire and Mark Fisher. And the lovely Commordore 😊

29/09/2017
A very interesting video on Fascia and a very good reason for your horse/pony to have sports massage.
29/09/2017

A very interesting video on Fascia and a very good reason for your horse/pony to have sports massage.

Gil Hedley, Ph.D., of http://www.gilhedley.com gives a lesson on the importance of movement and stretching to maintain the sliding properties of tissues in t...

I have a few spaces available next week in Cirencester area. Pm for details. Lou
25/08/2017

I have a few spaces available next week in Cirencester area. Pm for details. Lou

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:
Enhances Muscle Tone
Increases Range of Motion (flexibility)
Improves Performance
Relieves Muscle Tension
Reduces the risk of injury
Promotes healing
Improves Recovery time after illness
Promotes Lymphatic drainage.
Appointment includes evaluation, sports massage and follow up report.
Veterninary permission is required. PM me for more details

Lovely day yesterday at H&B Equestrian Hairy pony camp. Stan has found a new vocation as a  skeleton. More photos to fol...
13/08/2017

Lovely day yesterday at H&B Equestrian Hairy pony camp. Stan has found a new vocation as a skeleton. More photos to follow.

Brilliant course
09/08/2017

Brilliant course

Equissage Europe New

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:Enhances Muscle Tone...
01/08/2017

I am available for Sports Massage for your horse. Sports Massage benefits the horse in so many ways:
Enhances Muscle Tone
Increases Range of Motion (flexibility)
Improves Performance
Relieves Muscle Tension
Reduces the risk of injury
Promotes healing
Improves Recovery time after illness
Promotes Lymphatic drainage.
Appointment includes evaluation, sports massage and follow up report.
Veterninary permission is required. PM me for more details

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