Flyermc
Well-Known Member
Can anyone recommend and exercises to improve muscles atrophy behind the withers?
To cut a long story short, i had a saddle fitter out to check my saddle (different one to normal as she'd moved out of my area) the fitter was recommended and qualified but made and complete 'hash' of it and my boy ended up with muscles atrophy behind his withers. Ive since had another fitter out (last Jan) who re-fitted my saddle and recommended i used shims to fill in where the muscle should be. Everything was going well and in July i had her out again. Flyer had improved and came back by about 1cm on each side of his withers. The fitter was really pleased, re-adjusted my saddle and i no longer needed the shims. He wasnt back to the way he was, but the fitter said that due to his age (17) she thought that the improvement that had been made, was probably the best it was going to get.
The problem is, as he's going back into winter, the dips have come back. Im now starting to think that the 1cm difference was probably more down to him putting on abit of summer condition, rather than the muscle coming back (he's not a fat welsh by any means, but makes sense)
Has anyone ever dealt with this? What did you do? Did you get good results? (before/after pictures would be interesting)
To cut a long story short, i had a saddle fitter out to check my saddle (different one to normal as she'd moved out of my area) the fitter was recommended and qualified but made and complete 'hash' of it and my boy ended up with muscles atrophy behind his withers. Ive since had another fitter out (last Jan) who re-fitted my saddle and recommended i used shims to fill in where the muscle should be. Everything was going well and in July i had her out again. Flyer had improved and came back by about 1cm on each side of his withers. The fitter was really pleased, re-adjusted my saddle and i no longer needed the shims. He wasnt back to the way he was, but the fitter said that due to his age (17) she thought that the improvement that had been made, was probably the best it was going to get.
The problem is, as he's going back into winter, the dips have come back. Im now starting to think that the 1cm difference was probably more down to him putting on abit of summer condition, rather than the muscle coming back (he's not a fat welsh by any means, but makes sense)
Has anyone ever dealt with this? What did you do? Did you get good results? (before/after pictures would be interesting)