09/08/2024
We posted a video in the reel program about navicular treatment, and it was one good question.
"Did you take shoes off during the rehabilitation?"
Good question. If the horse arrives with shoes, I keep the shoes, but I remove the corrective shoeing in favor of the correct shoeing. The reason is that the corrective shoeings alter the capacity to recreate proper limb kinematics from refined thoracolumbar spine function. It is important that the hoof is properly balanced, but it is only one part of the rehabilitation. It is a mistake to believe that the shoeing alone can fix the problem. For centuries, the focus has been on the distal sesamoid bone. and the shoeing was the logical thinking. Now that we know that soft tissues are often the real problem, the direction, intensity, and frequency of the forces loading the forelegs have to be corrected. This must be done from the horse's thoracolumbar spine down to the legs and hoof. It is time to evolve from mechanical thinking and biomechanics to the understanding that the forces loading the navicular apparatus involve the coordination of the horse's whole physique. This is why we need to evolve from biomechanics to biotensegrity for the horse's soundness. This is what the Science of Motion has done.. Biotensegrity is a totally different picture, but interestingly, riders are afraid of the change at first, but they realize that all along, they were thinking in this new direction and are comfortable applying it. Horses naturally have a high sensitivity and refined perception. They are at home with the biotensegrity approach. Jean Luc
