Full Flex Veterinary Physiotherapy

07/10/2024

A* for Dj and his dynamic weight shifting and core stability - whatever the motivation maybe🤣

06/10/2024

🏋🏼‍♀️TREATMENT PLANS & EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION🏋🏼‍♀️

Plans and prescriptions are completely down to owner preference, some owners are happy to have a chat at the end the session whereas others would like a paper copy to reference back to and pass onto other professionals, aswell as a full exercise prescription to refer back to and ensure they’re doing right by their horse.

I often make small clinical notes after a session but these vary slightly to the ones owners receive so if you would like a copy of owner notes or exercise programmes specific to your horse please do not hesitate to ask.

04/10/2024

Here’s a reminder of some lovely words clients have shared after their treatments.

Don’t forget, if you leave a review you will receive 10% off your next appointment. If our testimonies have persuaded you to book in, see our autumn winter offer for new client discounts.

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04/10/2024

ANIMAL WELFARE DAY

Animal welfare if the forefront of any owners priorities but it can be a struggle to know what’s right especially with so much information out there it can be conflicting at times.

Seeking help from your Veterinarian is the best place to start but other professionals can help too. There are many charities or organisations if you or someone you know many need some assistance.

British Horse Society
Retraining of Racehorses
Redwings Horse Sanctuary
Blue Cross UK

03/10/2024

Unsure if Veterinary Physiotherapy is right for your horse?

Have a read through some FAQ’s to help you decide, alternatively pop us a message with any questions.

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02/10/2024

Winter is looming, nights are drawing in so get your appointments booked before availability becomes limited.

Especially if your yard has limited lighting.

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30/09/2024

Last minute availability this coming week for Equine and Canine patient’s.
PEMFT & Red Light Laser available.

Unsure if your Horse or Dog requires Physiotherapy? Benefits include:
🔹Increased mobility
🔹Maintenance of Joint health
🔹Strengthening and Conditioning of cardiovascular system
🔹Improving balance and stability
🔹Passive and Dynamic Exercises (great for these rainy days where exercise my be reduced).
🔹Mental stimulation.

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29/09/2024

Big pats for my gorgeous Nova (4yo) who went out for her first competitive outing yesterday - with a last minute changed to being indoors, which she has never seen.

As her work at home progresses, I regularly monitor to make sure mild ailments do not become serious. This helps keep her consistent and comfortable in her work, to ensure we are always progressing with positive and correct form.

Her ability is natural but lots to work on with her ring craft skill. She is very exciting🤩.

📸 Lovely image from KB Photography.

23/09/2024

As we appear to be galloping towards Winter, make the most of our winter offer to ensure optimal health can be maintained throughout the colder months.

22/09/2024

Fabulous evening spent at the Horses Inside Out evening, a great opportunity to refresh my anatomincal knowledge.

I’m particularly interested in performance biomechanics which was the focus in part two of the evening, looking at how the muscle chains work anatgonistically within the gait and then are able to disassociate to create specific movements - a common example of this is within the canter (a three beat movement) along the flat becomes disassociate when raised canter poles are added.

There were takeaways for all, which can be impliemented into the daily routine; some of which you will already see in the exercise prescription programmes you receive post treatment.

➡️ ‘If you don’t use it, you lose it’
This applies to all mechanisms, joint health and mobility, balance, stabilisiation, muscle tone and strength. Including both dynamic and passive movements into everyday life, even a simple as doing 3 - 5 steps of backing up between bringing in from the field helps to maintain function.

➡️ Expression = Balance, Stability and Strength
Possibly my favourite takeaway. We all watched the Olympics and saw horses doing great big expressive movements with large amount of level, but how many of us looked at the opposite leg remaining on the floor? That’s the impressuve part, the leg on the ground has to maintain balance, strength, stability to enable the opposite leg to create the big expressive movements we all ‘awe’ at.

➡️Is less, more?
I’m going to preface this with, all in moderation and adjust accordingly. How many times do athletes go to the gym and train the same areas? Leg day or cardio day sound familiar? Athletes repeat and repeat, so why do we only do 3 - 5 repetitions over poles? We have to keep working and building to maintain function, bringing it back to point one. Note - this doesn’t apply to rehabilitation cases, as less is more to promote healthy healing and longevity.

I’m going to keep it short a sweet at that as I could talk for hours, but feel free to discuss in the comments. My next post will be about all the exercises we can be doing to encourage and maintain all the points mentioned above, so do follow and watch out for that.

10/09/2024

Possibly not what you want to see on your timeline this morning, however an interesting watch and even more interesting comment thread to read.

The video recreated a dynamic long and low stretch, showing that whilst the spinous process opened up, and there was some lift from the multifindus m., these were the only true positive postural differences. With the tension Nuchal crest, which increased poll tension, shifts weight to the forelimbs and allows the underlying neck muscles to brace, creating in essence a false long and low. We are not seeing the engagement of the core, the increase in activation of the hind quarters which in turn creates lift and freedom of the shoulders and neck muscles.

Now, there is much more to discuss here. Training, environment, dysfunction all are variables which will impact the individual horses ability to move correctly. But perphaps food for thought, would stretching to a more neutral position will have more effect? Naturally, horses will eat with one leg retracted as they can not stretch that low, but have you watched them walk around the field? What posture do they maintain? (Again, the above variables also influence this).

08/09/2024

World Physiotherapy day.

The benefits of physiotherapy are applicable to all disciplines and patients.
▪️Improving range of motion
▪️Increasing stride length
▪️Reeducating gait patterns
▪️Improving suppleness, flexibility and posture
▪️Injury prevention and management.

Get in touch if you think physiotherapy could be beneficial for your horse.
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Today is World Physiotherapy day!

Check out the RAMP register to find a Veterinary Physiotherapist, Chiropractor or Osteopath near you ➡️ https://www.rampregister.org/the-register

03/09/2024

My horses recently had the dentist, so I took the opportunity to lunge in a dually which tends to be more of a tack room ornament these days. I don’t recall a time where I’ve used the dually on dj so to get this posture was really pleasing.

The top picture shows a lovely swinging trot, open and relaxed through the thoracic sling (shoulder) with the rib cage engaged (bow) to and clear connection over his back and through the neck (string). It also shows the areas that he is weaker, loosing connection in the hindquarters which is displayed in a limited stride length (inability to track up) also notice how Dj’s characteristics are also very neutral. His ears are pointed to me, listening for instruction; tail carriage is neutral and his mouth is relaxed with the bottom lip droopy.

02/09/2024

Being the official start of autumn I thought it was the perfect time to address a quiet social media which has meant an incredibly busy ‘summer’. Full of eventing (photos 1&2, Dj at Rolleston hall) producing horses (photos 3,4,7), managing to grab a short holiday, which still manage to involve horses at the Global Champions Tour in Monanco (phone 5&6) and plenty of working with four legged friends.

As autumn approaches I am already taking bookings for September, October and November, So please get in touch for appointments.

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01/09/2024

Looking forward to this! Great opportunity to learn more about our favourite partners and super local. 🤩

30/08/2024

Being a horse is tiring work!

Managed to catch all three taking a moment to yawn ~ self mobilising the hyroid bone (jaw).

11/06/2024

How facinating is it to what how the horses back works without the influence of a rider.

Horses can benefit from hydrotherapy in many forms, with the underwater treadmill being the most common for helping long and low postures, stride length and core stability.

06/06/2024

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04/06/2024

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I have some availability left for June in the weeks commencing 17th and 24th, evening and weekend appointments also available.

Check out the page for offers currently running - there’s something for everyone.

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01/06/2024

✨NEW CLIENT OFFER✨

Start the summer with 10% off intial appointments, and a further 5% when you book your follow up appointments.

28/05/2024

Another fabulous review, so grateful to have wonderful clients that trust me with their companions.

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28/05/2024

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