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3/1/2018
Newsflash ...Bones are held in place by ligaments and muscles.
Those muscles are held to the bone with tendons. Joints function from the use of muscles. Muscles are held in place by tendons, and fascia.
Nerves run through and along all of these types of tissues.
1. I don't 'not' work with nerves in my work.
It's kind of the whole point of my work in a multi-direction approach way. Muscles don't release from us peeling fibres away from each other, they release via feed back from the nervous system.
I also do not specialise in 'not' working with 'trapped nerves', becasue fascia glide is my business. Yep, insufficient fascial glide is the number one issue with 'trapped nerve' 'syndromes'.
To be honest it's like asking the pizza place if they need you to drop off a nub of dough for your double topping supreme when assuming that anyone in the business of tissue/structure mobility "doesn't work with nerves"....
2. Bones, vertebrae and joints do not go 'out' as a normal course.
These are called dislocations, they are very obvious, very painful and very very very much needing emergency assistance. Trust me, you'll be calling the Vet in these cases before you know it has a joint that is 'out' ......
3. Joints CAN experience a loss of range of mobility, that can be imbalanced in one region of the joint space.
This is caused by changes in fascia glide, soft tissue functionality, usually all asa result of not ideal peripheral nervous system feedback.
4. YES. I can feel when joints have a loss of mobility.
Yes I know why it happens and YES I can work on it.
5. Will I perform Chiropractic work?
No. I am not trained in it or certified in equine chiropractic work, but I can refer you to the very limited and incredibly professionally trained people that we do have in WA.
There are many documented cases of horses with long-standing histories or recent evidence of issues after being skeletally manipulated by laypersons, with commonly used high velocity techniques that have later had diagnostics performed showing 'high velocity technique' relative skeletal fractures.....yes, in horses.
6. How does this relate to soft tissues again? If the muscles/tissues say no, the bones won't go.....
7. Why is it not a quick fix? Again, if the muscles say no, the bones won't go....this takes time, effort & repetition to reliably retrain the nervous system & the soft tissues to correctly function and regulate if they have not been for a period of time.
This takes longer to retrain, that it does to be in a state of dysfunction.
Then it takes good quality correct fitness, and functional stability to prevent this compensatory response recurring.
To fix this, it will take work from YOU as the horses trainer & manager, and ME as the musculoskeletal therapist.
Sometimes it takes me, to train you, in how to train your horse.
But honestly, mainly you. Like, seriously, and I will tell you if you aren't putting the work in.
Your horse needs to be allowed to MOVE CORRECTLY for this to happen, and it needs to be asked to move correctly in ways that it is understood with ease by the horse.
8. Does this always work? Nope. Sometimes your horse has an underlying pathology or problem in the joint spaces, or the soft tissue which requires veterinary diagnosis and treatment prior to this occurring, and that is why it is vital to have this done if it recommended.
I could go on for hours but I won't. This important folks, we need to stop segmenting our horses bodies into convenient sections of functional or dysfunctional tissue that we can 'shop' for a quick fix and solution for. You cannot physically separate your horses body into area's of influence, it ALL works together, bones, muscles, mental & physical.... If your team of instructors, coaches, trainers, farrier, therapists and veterinarians do not understand and respect this - then you have the wrong team.
The bones, nerves and joints are served by the muscles, fascia and connective tissues. They cannot function correctly without one another functioning correctly. They are a team.
It takes time and effort to make the performance horse a healthy, sustainable, happy 'living, feeling, experiencing' animal with optimum welfare. Put it in.
Taking shortcuts in our own welfare is one thing, but for goodness sakes we need to start and CONTINUE being accountable for our horses, they are of course OUR beasts of OUR burdens, ...or we could simply choose for them to not be, by carrying that load fairly.
