04/09/2024
This is some great information to remember! The whole body is connected, and it takes time for the body to recalibrate whenever you change something, whether that be hoof angle, nutrition, tack, etc.
Please consider !
When we are changing “angles” and trying to align bony columns … please remember that the connective tissue doesn’t automatically receive this new information well.
The horse has been operating in a certain way for a while. Yes it maybe setting off a cascade of other physical events. So whilst we think this is what needs to be done … consider the “information” that this horse has been utilising as it’s “normal” probably for a fair while.
People think in bones and muscles.
The skeleton is suspended within by ALL the things that join it together.
Expand beyond this ….
All the fascia, tendons and ligaments are operating .. doing the do .. in the way they have .. good or not so good. Working off all those ceptors and creating patterns that the brain can safely plug n play. (S**t or good patterns)
Someone comes along and changes the input information .. often without consideration for what those inputs are now saying to connective tissue that now has to reorganise itself (or says hell no). Postures static and dynamic now have a new “context”.
Sometimes adjustments and reorganisation goes well, sometimes it doesn’t. The hip socket is now in a different alignment, the elbow or shoulder joint has a different feel to it, the sacro has different forces travelling through it (let alone every single bone/joint along the spine and there are soooo many).
The fascia, the tendons and ligaments don’t automatically let go and reorganise, what once was tight is now not, what once was freerer is now not. The brains says 😱 the tissue says 😱 and often the joint capsule says 😱.
Just because you now have a bony alignment that you are happy with .. have you asked the horse how he feels about it ? Has there been time to adjust ? Have you thought about there maybe a need for movement education and it is imperative that this is NOT done in an alarm brain where tissues are already unsafe. Re education of movement, let alone posture requires a nervous system that is on board. If not there is a cascade of uncool signalling that creates a lot of alarm (inflammation, digestion, endocrine, cardio etc). Stuff like that effects not only movement, but the tissues themselves, the organs. You could also end up with laminitic events, blood sugar events, digestive, behavioural, abscesses …. 🤔
Ever get new shoes, height, type and they feel weird, so you are processing that info and adjusting your body. Does your body go hell no .. I can’t walk in these (let alone run, jump, balance, do the things) I feel unsafe and my back, knee, hip, shoulder, neck etc etc are giving me curry 🤷♀️
Just because the “maths” says it should, the brain, body of the individual rules ..
Humans sometimes get a little we know best, and we don’t. Yes things get insanely out of balance but be mindful of how much consideration is needed to come back into balance … no matter the subject
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Darcy likes to remind me that my priorities sometimes need adjusting
