Boysy
Well-Known Member
Double posted
My mare has just been diagnosed with Hypermobility, more so in her back than other joints, and it is from the shoulders right along the whole back, I've seriously never seen a ponies back move the way hers did when the physio pressed the right points. If I was light stomached I think I may have puked! She can also bend her legs in some pretty impressive movements. The comment was made that's she's rather like a blackcurrant jellybaby.......
I always thought she was a tad more flexible than other ponies.......
Anyone have any experience with equines as I am completely in the dark where this is concerned.
This has stemmed from two lots of oddly sprained fetlocks this year and she's just been diagnosed with mild Arthritis in her left hock, had full x-rays done, she even has a weirdly curved splint bone down the same leg as the arthritis. She has been compensating for the hock through her back which has made her very tense above the sacrum area.
Plan at the moment is to get her on the right dose of pain relief to enable the physio to work on her back more without compromising the hock, she is to have some acupuncture and possibly shiatsu as well. Keep exercising her at walk on the flat to hopefully stabilise the joints?
But I haven't asked the question as to how this will all turn out in the end, mare is 15 going on 5 and can do a bit of everything but we've kind of found her forte in dressage so have really just been doing that most of the year. Probably why she finds all the intricate movements so easy to be honest cos her joints just jelly around.
My mare has just been diagnosed with Hypermobility, more so in her back than other joints, and it is from the shoulders right along the whole back, I've seriously never seen a ponies back move the way hers did when the physio pressed the right points. If I was light stomached I think I may have puked! She can also bend her legs in some pretty impressive movements. The comment was made that's she's rather like a blackcurrant jellybaby.......
I always thought she was a tad more flexible than other ponies.......
Anyone have any experience with equines as I am completely in the dark where this is concerned.
This has stemmed from two lots of oddly sprained fetlocks this year and she's just been diagnosed with mild Arthritis in her left hock, had full x-rays done, she even has a weirdly curved splint bone down the same leg as the arthritis. She has been compensating for the hock through her back which has made her very tense above the sacrum area.
Plan at the moment is to get her on the right dose of pain relief to enable the physio to work on her back more without compromising the hock, she is to have some acupuncture and possibly shiatsu as well. Keep exercising her at walk on the flat to hopefully stabilise the joints?
But I haven't asked the question as to how this will all turn out in the end, mare is 15 going on 5 and can do a bit of everything but we've kind of found her forte in dressage so have really just been doing that most of the year. Probably why she finds all the intricate movements so easy to be honest cos her joints just jelly around.