How Do I Know Whether My Horse Needs Chiropractic Care?
- Changes in overall performance and behaviour
- Pain or sensitivity to touch while being groomed
- Resistant to being bridled
- Difficulty or changes in lifting leg (for the farrier for example)
- Shortening of stride, inability or lack of desire to go forward from behind (inability to 'sit' behind)
- Inability/refusal to pick up proper canter lead, frequent swapping of lead, cross-canter
- Head tossing during transitions (particularly upward transitions)
- Changes in behaviour such as unwillingness to stand while being mounted, girthiness, uncharacteristic bucking
- Uneven hips, shoulders and difficulty bending to one side or the other or from one side to the other
- Injuries sustained during training, shows ( for examples falls during cross-country; at a jump refusal), trailering
- Ongoing history of back and leg problems and previously diagnosed conditions such as joint degeneration (osteoarthritis)
- Muscle asymmetry, weakness, wasting, roached (hunched) back
- Conformational issues that predispose to stressors
- Stressors such as poor fitting saddle, rider experience/balance, shoeing problems, training aids
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