BBP
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So BBP has always been the trigger for me asking and learning about weird things, on here and elsewhere.
Now it’s the turn of the not so little young one (pesky creature has gone overheight!), and I thought I would test the HHO knowledge database before the vet and osteopath see him.
2 odd things:
1) when he gets worried, he gets hiccups. Not thumps, not windsucking, but actual hiccups (random disruption of the diaphragm unrelated to his heartbeat) which then clearly cause gut discomfort and he will drop down to roll to help himself. It is almost impossible to progress training as the hiccups come on so easily.
2) his neck ‘clunks’ for want of a better word. It’s not popping/cracking like air from the joints, it’s a sort of clunky twangy feeling. If you place a hand about a hand distance back from the poll on the top of his neck you can feel something clunking/moving as his head and neck move up down left and right. It feels like a muscle or ligament slipping over something. Sometimes you can see or hear something happening. My equine anatomy is not up to knowing what is going on. The other horses all feel smooth as they go through their range of movement.
So can I please activate the hive mind? Any experience of either of these things? Likelihood of the two things being connected (neck issue affecting the phrenic nerve that innervates the diagphragm…or am I overthinking?)
Now it’s the turn of the not so little young one (pesky creature has gone overheight!), and I thought I would test the HHO knowledge database before the vet and osteopath see him.
2 odd things:
1) when he gets worried, he gets hiccups. Not thumps, not windsucking, but actual hiccups (random disruption of the diaphragm unrelated to his heartbeat) which then clearly cause gut discomfort and he will drop down to roll to help himself. It is almost impossible to progress training as the hiccups come on so easily.
2) his neck ‘clunks’ for want of a better word. It’s not popping/cracking like air from the joints, it’s a sort of clunky twangy feeling. If you place a hand about a hand distance back from the poll on the top of his neck you can feel something clunking/moving as his head and neck move up down left and right. It feels like a muscle or ligament slipping over something. Sometimes you can see or hear something happening. My equine anatomy is not up to knowing what is going on. The other horses all feel smooth as they go through their range of movement.
So can I please activate the hive mind? Any experience of either of these things? Likelihood of the two things being connected (neck issue affecting the phrenic nerve that innervates the diagphragm…or am I overthinking?)
