Emma Mayhew Veterinary Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Gorgeous sleepy boy! For anyone that remembers Nilly (above).. This is her beautiful half brother 🥰

Cuteness overload - Physio treatment hitting hard 😴

Jack is a rescued street dog who sustained a carpal (wrist) fracture before being rescued. Unfortunately, healing while living as a stray was less than optimal, resulting in altered limb loading and long term compensatory movement patterns.

Today’s session focused on addressing secondary muscular compensations and improving joint mobility to support more balanced weight bearing through the affected limb. Cases like Jack’s demonstrate how previous injuries can continue to influence movement long after the initial injury has healed, often leading to compensatory changes elsewhere within the musculoskeletal system.

3 confronting thoughts after attending a whole horse dissection:

1. Nearly all of the significant findings would not have been found using diagnostic imaging.

(This included an avulsion fracture and fused vertebrae)

2. One of the findings that had been diagnosed with imaging was significantly worse than the imaging depicted.

3. Some of the findings on their own, if experienced by a human, would have given rise to life-limiting pain. This horse was not ridden, and yet how many horses are ridden whilst experiencing similar and/or worse?

This is not an exhaustive list... it's merely the tip of the iceberg of my feelings...

Tell me again why we continually minimise horse's pain?

A word of thanks to the donor horse and his humans, for allowing his story to be shared - enabling me to help more horses with the lessons he has given.

And to Becks Nairn for guiding the learning and being so generous with her knowledge 🤍

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THIS! And sadly, it’s too true and I experience it far too often

Here's a spicy one for you this evening - because i havent made a career limiting post in a hot minute(!)

How complicit are you in your own (or your horse's) suffering?

I appreciate we all have horses for a reason, and I appreciate their care and management is a complicated thing.

When I work with people, sometimes I have to say things they dont want to hear:

"Your horse shouldnt be ridden right now" - because theyre in pain, their posture is too compromised, they barely have enough muscle to support themselves yet alone a rider, their saddle doesnt fit.

"You shouldnt be jumping your horse" see above reasons why.

"You shouldnt be cantering right now" because it will definitely strengthen the compensatory pattern.

Compromise can be made when making the argument between streamlining the process - not riding will get quicker postural changes, but if you want to ride and ultimately the horse isnt in overt pain/discomfort, then that should be fine.

But I really dont compromise when your horse is in pain. Nor should you.

There are SO many people who are wonderful when they hear this -

"I just want my horse to be happy" - literal music to my ears

But there are many people who want their horse to be happy - stating as much - but when it comes to taking the above guidance, they push back.

It's not the answer that they want to hear.

Yet they've been chasing an issue with their horse for months or years and you've given them a solution... its just not a solution where they get to do what they've always done...

And I wonder about the graveyard of professionals behind me, who have given them appropriate advice that again was not heard because it wasnt the answer that they wanted to hear.

I understand that professionals dont always get it right. I also understand that there are many professionals that get it really really quite wrong -

I just find it to be very profound that when you point out the behavioural indicators of pain, the lameness and the biomechanical dysfunction, you can still be totally ignored -

Especially when your friend in the stable next door (with no formal training in anything equine related) says their horse does the same thing, so therefore your horse must be fine!

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