Help - useless right leg

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I need help!!

I have a real problem with my right leg at the moment. My left has a good solid effective position when schooling. However, the right has a mind of its own! It wobbles about, my heel comes up I lose the stirrup - it is driving me crazy!

Any suggestions as to exercises or anything I can do to try and sort this. As always when you have a problem you think about it is becomes worse and so the circle continues!!
 
it sounds more like a pelvis or hip problem to me... i think i'd try to see a mctimoney practitioner or a physio, or an Alexander Technique teacher otherwise. can't really suggest anything else, other than relaxing, not trying too hard, thinking of your legs as two pieces of wet spaghetti against the horse, just hanging down. best of luck!
 
My left is the useless one, do you want to swap? We can each have a week of two crap legs, then two good ones...
But seriously I know mine is prob like that b/c I collapse to the left through the hip and pelvis and it puts me all out.
 
Kerilli - do you really think it could be something physical - I thought I was just being useless!!

If I am collapsing to the left how will I know (stupid question)!
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yes, definitely, especially if it's not usually like this or not usually this bad.
when my back is wrong, i am totally rubbish, for e.g. i can't sit to the trot at all (something i usually find effortless), and sometimes my left leg (my dominant side) goes all tight and horrible and grips upwards, and i can't get it to release and hang long.
if you've never been to one before, go to a Mctimoney Chiropractor. probably the best £30 or so you'll ever spend, i reckon. put aside your scepticism and go and see what they say and do. it is gentle, but amazingly effective.
 
Have you tried asking a good instructor about how you sit on the horse so that when you get yourself checked out you can explain exactly where the problem is occurring.
 
Have done this and she can see nothing glaringly wrong with my position - I am not obviously sitting more to one side than the other.
 
QR: I had this problem with my left leg, its always been the weaker of the two but got a lot worse recently. I have been seeing a chiropractor for the last couple of months and as I thought I did have a problem in my lower back.! its getting so much better now and I can feel the difference. I have also been given excerises to do with a gym ball to help with my core strength to help my lower back, by strengthening the core muscles you put less strain on your lower back.
I would def get yourself looked at.! I was thinking along the lines of 'I get the horses back looked at regularly so why not get myself looked at too.?!'
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I had a similar problem with my left leg. As I didn't experience any pain in it I started walking up the hill everyday - after a few weeks I really noticed an improvement.
 
I sit evenly on the horse...but have hyperflexion of my ankle joints due to a few injuries...dislocations...ligament tears..breaks etc...
If you've had any injuries, this may explain it? Or possibly one leg may be longer than another (seriously, it happens). Or you may put more weight onto one foot than another in everyday life (get two sets of scales and experiment to see if you do this).
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you are exactly the same as me!!! i can do sitting trot fine and my left leg stays completely still.....yet my right leg wobbles about all over the place.

it's interesting to read everyone else's replies on this
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I agree with the first person, it is your pelvis.
The reason I know that is because mine does that and your notice your knee will sit differently on the saddle.
I see a physio every week for mine cos it is so bad, but you can easliy get it put to where it is level yourself, i do mine daily.
PM me if you want more details.
 
Also suspect hip/pelvis area.
I have 1 leg shorter than the other and that plus a few other things that give me all kinds of excuses - sorry, PROBLEMS!
A good sports physio (one who treats the local rugby team perhaps!) might be an interesting starting point.
Made a huge difference to me, followed up with a lot of no stirrup work to get me back in the right part of the saddle. Need to go again now though...
 
Deffo sounds like a hip issue! My left leg is always solid, hardly moves, the right swings away on its own! But my LEFT hip is bad, something not right and it is agony if I try and move my left leg too far back, and I am also slightly collapsed to the right if you look at me from behind.

No stirrup work hurts and makes it worse, but I've found that bareback is better as I have to not grip or Ill pop off and its a better shape for my hips!
 
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I agree with the first person, it is your pelvis.
The reason I know that is because mine does that and your notice your knee will sit differently on the saddle.
I see a physio every week for mine cos it is so bad, but you can easliy get it put to where it is level yourself, i do mine daily.
PM me if you want more details.

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Do u mean differently as in say, one further forward than the other?? Thats what my left leg does!! its a good 1" further forward looking than the right!!
 
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