Touch Equine

07/12/2024

Would anyone like me to produce a video with some simple techniques for owners to use prior to riding?

27/11/2024

Highly recommend

26/11/2024

Last of 2024 availability as follows:

Wednesday 4th
Monday 9th
Friday 13th
Thursday 19th

If anyone would like a pre-winter check then please send me a DM

17/11/2024

Helpful guide to rugging over winter. This is a rough guide and if you only have a bib clip I’d treat as unclipped.

Feel free to share!

15/11/2024

Sadly overlooked by many and can cause so many issues in other parts of the body. Cranial work is always part of my treatment to ensure your horses really are 100% treated 👏

14/11/2024

Is it my turn yet? 😂

12/11/2024

𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗽 - 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗲

This is a great exercise to do in-hand. Walking over a raised pole requires greater flexion in your horse's joints than trotting.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗺
✅ To lift and flex the back, hip, shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock.
✅ Strengthen the muscles and structures involved in engagement, hip flexion and pelvic stability.
✅ Improve suppleness and flexibility through the shoulder, elbow, hip, stifle and hock.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁
🐴 Walk your horse over a pole on the floor.
🐴 Gradually raise it until it's around knee height.
🐴 Encourage your horse to lower his head to look at the pole.

To really see the benefits do this on a daily basis. To help make it eaiser to incoporate this exercise into your daily routine, place the raised pole, or small log in a place where you can regularly walk your horse over it - for example to and from the field.

12/11/2024

Nice mention from Chapelfield Veterinary Partnership Brooke Equine Clinic 🥰

11/11/2024

I have availability this Wednesday on this route if anyone would like a pre winter check.

03/11/2024

Where do I start 🤔

I’ve been treating Buddy for several years now and his owner has become a very good friend of mine, back in February I went to give Buddy his 6 weekly maintenance treatment and we stood discussing little niggles that kept reappearing before each treatment. We knew it wasn’t saddle related as he’s checked by a very knowledgeable saddler 3-4 times a year, his teeth were up to date, shod every 6 weeks and kept like a king and wanted for nothing! I recommended he had a visit from a very knowledgeable chiropractor who I use for my horses, fast forward to May and his owner decided to book him on a lameness locator day which her vets were running and it showed that Buddy had a suspensory injury (a stretch not a tear, hence no lameness).

After several months of rehabilitation from his owner who hand walked him in rain, sun, wind and just about everything else then gradually and slowly bringing him back to work under saddle yesterday she fulfilled a dream of having a lesson with Nicola Wilson 5* eventer! This photo not only makes me happy to see them both doing what they love but even better it’s over my jump fillers 👏💗

So the moral of the story is regular treatments from your chosen bodyworker can give you an insight into something much deeper going on with your horse before it gets to the point where the horse has to be retired due to a irreversible injury.

03/11/2024

I have limited days available between now and Christmas so if you are wanting your horses seen then please send me a DM to get booked in

02/11/2024

The subject of lameness under saddle is a difficult one. This article is a great read.

I call it the lameness that is not really lameness. Sometimes, a horse develops an unexplainable hitch in his movement that leads to much head scratching from vets who, after an array of diagnostics, find no clear answers. The horse is described as being “not quite right,” but beyond that, there...

02/11/2024

30/10/2024

I have a space for 1 possibly 2 in the Yarmouth area tomorrow.

16/10/2024

02/09/2024

I have availability this Friday if anyone would like their horse treated.

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