Jiouxles
13th Apr 2007, 09:47 PM
I wonder if any therapists would mind giving their opinions about the following:
Mayoral has taken to lifting his head up, turning it to the left and 'yawing' on his bit when asked to transition up from walk to trot and trot to canter. He will continue this for about five minutes and then it seems to settle down. It does, however, happen everytime he is asked to increase his pace. ie; we could do walk-trot-walk and the next time I ask him to trot it will happen again. He also turns his face to the left when we are just walking out on a hack - I thought he was just looking at things to start with but I have now noticed that his neck is very rarely totally straight and it's always to the left. I left him totally to his own devices and he was virtually crabbing up the lane.
Today we were out after four days of no riding (he is box kept and hasn't been able to go out at all because of the weather) and he was fine walking but as soon as we increased pace he started with the head twisting. I also noticed that he caught his back toe (left side I think) a couple of times - like he wasn't lifting his leg high enough. He has always almost slid this rear hoof along the ground on occasions and I wonder if he has any muscle or hip problems.
I appreciate that remote diagnosis is not possible but unfortunately there are NO equine therapists where I live (you'd be stoned for witchcraft). Just wondered if there is anything I might be able to do help him?
I had his teeth/mouth checked last Friday (by an extremely top notch vet who looks after the Spanish Endurance riding squad - long story, friend of a friend thank G*d, no money involved) and he said there is nothing the matter with Mayo's teeth or mouth.
Mayoral has taken to lifting his head up, turning it to the left and 'yawing' on his bit when asked to transition up from walk to trot and trot to canter. He will continue this for about five minutes and then it seems to settle down. It does, however, happen everytime he is asked to increase his pace. ie; we could do walk-trot-walk and the next time I ask him to trot it will happen again. He also turns his face to the left when we are just walking out on a hack - I thought he was just looking at things to start with but I have now noticed that his neck is very rarely totally straight and it's always to the left. I left him totally to his own devices and he was virtually crabbing up the lane.
Today we were out after four days of no riding (he is box kept and hasn't been able to go out at all because of the weather) and he was fine walking but as soon as we increased pace he started with the head twisting. I also noticed that he caught his back toe (left side I think) a couple of times - like he wasn't lifting his leg high enough. He has always almost slid this rear hoof along the ground on occasions and I wonder if he has any muscle or hip problems.
I appreciate that remote diagnosis is not possible but unfortunately there are NO equine therapists where I live (you'd be stoned for witchcraft). Just wondered if there is anything I might be able to do help him?
I had his teeth/mouth checked last Friday (by an extremely top notch vet who looks after the Spanish Endurance riding squad - long story, friend of a friend thank G*d, no money involved) and he said there is nothing the matter with Mayo's teeth or mouth.