Jayne Connors - Equine Osteopath & Sports Massage

07/01/2025

Osteopathy can address a range of conditions

Post-surgery recovery
Joint pain
Muscular problems
Gait problems
Poor or reduced performance
Aging related pain
Stiffness
And much more!

04/12/2024

Winback Tecar Therapy - What is it?

Winback is revolutionising Tecar therapy with high frequency currents that stimulate metabolism and deliver targeted cellular analgesic action, acting on different tissues: skin, muscles, nerves, bones...

The best part? This is pain-free, safe and 100% natural, and accelerates healing, in some cases, twice as fast!

Interested? Want to learn more? Message me today 📩

30/11/2024

17/11/2024

From Twisted and Torn Back to Top Form !

Here is my list of services! For more information or to book in, contact me today 📩

11/11/2024

Have you noticed a difference in your horses performance? Do they seem stiff or unbalanced? Equine Osteopathy can help with this!

If you are keen to find out more or want to book in, message me today 📩

10/11/2024

Again, there's always a reason behind any behavior and it's our own responsibility to understand it, in order to start working just from there 💚

Picture credit: Horse Conversations

05/11/2024

22/10/2024

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

22/09/2024

“GIVE YOUR HARD WORKING HORSE TIME TO RECOVER!

Horses replenish their muscle fuel (glycogen) stores more slowly than humans, and working them hard on consecutive days will gradually result in impaired performance due to a lack of muscle fuel.

Fit horses should not be worked hard 5 or 6 days a week, and an easy day should always follow a hard day.

These rest (nil or easy work) days aren’t just key for muscle fuel stores, but also for muscle strength and stamina. Muscles break down during work, then build up in the rest period after work!

Performance horses should have their work tapered back in the run up to an event, to ensure optimal muscle glycogen levels and to ensure full recovery from the last bout of hard exercise.

Good hydration including adequate electrolyte intake is also important in optimal muscle glycogen replenishment.” - Clare MacLeod MSc RNutr Independent Equine Nutritionist

Something to think about…

(Give Clare’s page a like and follow. She puts out great stuff!)

17/08/2024

31/07/2024

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Due to personal circumstances and health challenges I am sadly seeking a new home for Stacy (Redkite Staycation), my beautiful home bred gelding. Stacy is 3 years old, bred from my lovely mare Oxnead Sonia (sired by Norvic, damsire Alpine) and by Stylo Van de Edelweiss. Fully registered wi...

01/07/2024

I will be doing this myself

SITTING TROT (Quick tip)
To practice your sitting trot: STAND UP!

Yes, that’s right!

Standing up in the stirrups while trotting is one of the first steps to real balance.

Not jumping position leaning over, but STRAIGHT UP.

Are you wobbling around up there?
When you learn to absorb through your joints - hip, knee and ankle joints, up there standing in trot, then your sitting trot stands a chance of being good too.

If you can’t stand with a tiny gap between your p***c bone and the saddle standing fully, your stirrups are too long to help your balance and your heels will be up.
If the gap is Huge when you stand, your stirrups are too short.

Good luck with this exercise!