🚨 Facilitated vs. Inhibited Muscles—What Your Horse’s Balance Is Telling You!🐴 Ever notice how one side of your horse feels stiffer, heavier, or harder to pick up? That’s neuromuscular imbalance in action—one side is facilitated (overactive) while the other is inhibited (under-recruited). 📍 Here’s the key: ✅ A facilitated leg is stiff, resistant, and lacks fluid motion. ✅ An inhibited leg is weaker, harder to balance on, and less responsive. ✅ Both are just clues—not fixed diagnoses. Our job
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What's your horse's movement really telling you? Even subtle changes in posture & muscle tension can reveal so much about your horse’s comfort, behaviour, and biomechanics. The Movement & Behaviour Course with Dr Sue Dyson is designed for anyone who wants to truly understand what’s going on beneath the surface. There’s growing evidence that many in the horse world struggle to spot movement disorders and that can have a huge impact on both performance and welfare. This online course will help you
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Lateral movements require the horse to move sideways and forwards, whilst maintaining lateral flexion through the neck and body towards or away from the direction of travel. To perform them well requires balance, rhythm, impulsion, strength and suppleness. 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟱 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝟳.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺 (𝗕𝗦𝗧) for a fascinating insight into how your horse creates sideways movement. Also, disc
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⁣🌟 Hip Adductor Mobility Drill 🌟⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 🏇 Hip tightness is common in horse riders and often the hip adductor muscles (muscles on the inside of the thigh and groin) are not targeted for strengthening or mobility. ⁣ ⁣ On Thursday we covered strengthening exercises for the hip adductors. Today let’s look at some mobility exercises.⁣ ⁣ There are five muscles that are responsible for hip adduction: adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis and obturator externus. The first two are
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Why Wednesday ~ I am doing dressage with my horse and although he is doing great, I notice that he tends to build up tension in the shoulders and pectorals. He is also very sensitive to touch, is there any Masterson Method® technique I can use with him to help him release some of that tension, especially in the pectorals? Answer: The pectoral muscles have a significant role in dressage horses because these muscles are involved in the movement of the forelegs. If they are tight they can restrict
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⁣🌟 Hip Adductor Mobility Drill 🌟⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 🏇 Hip tightness is common in horse riders and often the hip adductor muscles (muscles on the inside of the thigh and groin) are not targeted for strengthening or mobility. ⁣ ⁣ On Thursday we covered strengthening exercises for the hip adductors. Today let’s look at some mobility exercises.⁣ ⁣ There are five muscles that are responsible for hip adduction: adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis and obturator externus. The first two are
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