Hellfire Forge Farrier

29/01/2025

Student question :
Why do we see so many over pronounced tensor fascia latae muscles in horses even when they are not moving ?

Simple incorrect motion and loading of the hindlimb. If you see an over developed or over pronounced tensor fascia latae muscles chances are your horse's femur is unstable during the loading phase of the gate cycle.

Ilium position affects muscle function. Ilium position in most horses is unbalanced between left and right creating a shear through the pelvic.

Example - When one of the iliums rotates medial and cranial ( in and up), two muscles become challenged because of poor position to counteract each other, for stable femoral loading.

Their effectiveness in keeping the pelvis or acetabulum positioned correctly over the hock is lost, because the psoas has to work harder as an external rotator to keep the femur lined up with the foot.

This leads to the psoas and tensor fascia latae now becoming the primary femoral and hip stabilizers through ilium rotation instead of the gluteals. We can clearly see this when we have these very prominent tensor fascia latae muscles.

So if your tensor fascia latae muscles are over pronounced , chances are your horse is struggling with hind limb stability.

28/12/2024

02/10/2024

Thanking all my loyal clients for sticking with us through this hard period.

At all times I put your equines needs ahead of my own.

In this motorcycle accident that involved myself and my wife, as you would, the priority became us.

I do now have a few spaces for new clients.

You need to call me and leave a message, if I don’t pick up with the postcode, your equines needs standard, remedial, etc and I; give you a call back

Very best Ash

20/08/2024

Morning everyone

Myself and claire (mrs) were involved in a Road Traffic Accident whilst riding our big Bertha motrbike

Claire iis off the morphine results for mri means she can go home her important nerves and ligaments all stretched but in GWO. Losing conciseness in a RTA can mean loads of things, and as we both had head trauma the hospital aired on side of caution,
And I thank guildford hospital for being so helpful and vigilant making sure all elements are 100% before they let us go.

We are in a mess we don't bounce anymore and thank you for your concern, and kind messages of recuperation and offers of help.

To those of you that are hearing about this for the first time and I have not managed to call you concerning not getting to your horses for appointments.

I'm sure that if you were involved in what we have been the last thing on your mind would be making sure you got to your horses feet appointment, and I am as always flexible in the needs of you and your horse.
On this occasion its my family that is my main concern

The RTA causer the 24 yesr old that tried to jump the bike.
Did not think Ash would grab him and hold him till police arrived.!

It also turns out that the same kid has tried the same stunt on another part of the same road before but luckily the rider managed to narrowly avoid him.

As we were on Big Bertha our 21 year old 100 year harley edition cruiser that has survived 21 years unscathed. A ton more motorbike to hit and handle we are all lucky including the kid except her.

Thank you for all your responses I just thort I'd make sure you all knew we are out of the worst
Love Ash and Claire

06/08/2024

My Mrs has been asked to organise this at East Byshe they have kindly done an introductory offer of £10 ppp on Thursday pm her to book in

29/07/2024

Thank you for bearing with me we have had some serious vehicle issues the past few weeks

We are now sorted and back to normal schedule
Definitely a disaster I don't want to repeat.
Apologies to those of you that were affected...
Very best Ash

21/01/2024