Does anyone visit the Physio/specialists to help their riding?? Ive seen the light!

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Just wondering !?!
this could be long - but found i can see the light!
ps sorry if you feel this is irrelevant (just a nice story for the evening!), without any trolls and i feel this is 'slightly!?!?! comp riders related! :D;)

I have had so many problems with my position (dressage) having a knockon effect to the grey bouncy thing - when i can get my leg back and onto his ribs - (obvs not too far back!) and beneth me he suddenly loosens up and he really gets swingin and puts his head down!
i really thought it was me being incompetent (and so did my trainer:rolleyes:) that i just couldnt get that position - so much so recently i gave up trying, focusing on other aspects of my riding
visited a foot specialist about having pain in my feet (not neccessarily when riding, more a constant thing) to find i have a mortons neuroma in each foot which is my bones affecting my nerves due to my achellies tendon being too tight..
hence - me wanting to push my foot foward and not beneth me! :D:D:D:D:D:D
am very happy as i now feel i am not an incompetron :rolleyes: (and have ditched the trainer)(not purley for that reason!)
i have been given exercises to do and have been told it should improve! YAY!

so how many of you visit the physio regularly? be it for anything else? i didnt think there was a proper reason for my position but am relived there is light!

bit of christmas cake or mince pies to all!!
 
Glad its going to help!

I go to a chiropractor every four weeks, and its definitely improved my position for both flatwork and jumping. I started out because I broke my back, and noticed how much it was helping. So although my riding wasnt the reason I went, its definitely an upside!

:)
 
The right side of my back always hurts when walking up a particular hill on my horse. This is on the opposite side to his PSD, and the leg that he tracks up more on - I think I can see some kind of connection in the two, and I need to make my horse walk evenly. Hoping a visit from a chiro (next week) and an osteo (in 3 weeks) will help him - haven't figured out about helping me yet though :D
 
Yep, chiropractor also. I can scarcely move if I don't go regularly (on the ground, not just on horseback!), and my back goes into spasm if the horse shies a tiny bit when my back is bad - so it's essential for me!
 
i think its really something people should consider more as there is an awful lot behind some problems to do with our body than we think. i supose it also helps the horses bodys if we are proper and correct :)
 
If anyone can recommend a miracle physio for horse riders in or near Oxfordshire area I'd love to hear. I've suffered back pain both in and out of the saddle for years and have yet to find a solution! I've tried 2 osteopaths, a chiropractor, numerous physios, exercise, swimming and Pilates and have had my back MRId and blood tests done but no-one can help me or find anything wrong (yet they all agree everything is tight and I'm clearly in pain)!
 
Yep - horse and I have same Chiro! Def helps in fact I need to book her to come out for him - can always tell as right canter becomes worse than left.... Just after her visits for a month or two, right is better than left! He's got slightly uneven shoulders from being born with a boxy foot, foot now almost identical to the other one, but knock on effect is that right shoulder tightens up... And then my right shoulder tightens! It's a vicious circle only broken by regular attentions from Chiro!
 
I have regular chiro visits for lower back/sacrolilliat issues. normally its managedable although i have episodes like on boxing day where I can't move without stupid amounts of painkillers and even then pain is almost off the scale. thankfully those episodes very few and far between ;)

when I'm 'out' though it definitely affects my riding and its often struggling with lateral work that acts as the first sign that I am needing a treatment session or two ;)
 
dressage_diva said:
If anyone can recommend a miracle physio for horse riders in or near Oxfordshire area I'd love to hear. I've suffered back pain both in and out of the saddle for years and have yet to find a solution! I've tried 2 osteopaths, a chiropractor, numerous physios, exercise, swimming and Pilates and have had my back MRId and blood tests done but no-one can help me or find anything wrong (yet they all agree everything is tight and I'm clearly in pain)!
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Have you tried sports massage? If no one can find anything skeletaly wrong I'd assume it was muscular?
 
Polotash - I haven't no, as so far have managed to be referred for all my treatments rather than paying myself and not sure I can get any more referrals so am reluctant to try a sports massage therapist unless I can get recommendations of someone worth it. I'm also not sure how a sports massage is that different to physio? I'd definitely agree the issue is muscular though.
 
Once my chap is back in work and we're back out competing again I will definately be having regular physio and reflexology. I am not allowed to see a Chiro, as I broke L1,2,3 vertibrae two years ago and L3 is still somewhat broken (ie big lump of daylight between two pieces of bone.. by big lump read that as 0.7mm) and Skeletal manipulation would not be good! I can only see a physio via referral but I found last season Reflexology really helped me realise what i was doing in the saddle and how it was putting strain on the places the reflexologist pointed out. My balance improved, my posture improved because I remembered to sit up, tuck my butt underneath me and to breathe lol! It might not be physical manipulation but I've definately felt more confident and 'together' when competing if I've recently had rflex.
 
Yes i do, just got in from the chiropractor this evening in fact.

I think that many riders are finally getting the message, that we need to look after ourselves as well as our horses.

My position is really improving, thanks to the chiropractor and a good trainer.
 
IME unless a rider is very strong (balanced, not just physically strong), a horse can easily set up imbalances/crookedness in the rider. Also, vice versa. Therefore it is pointless addressing one without the other....plus the saddle...the tool (or one of the tools of communication between the two.
 
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