Bee

Bee Law 8/04/24 Bee had her initial assessment today. Her tack is up to date with checks and she has had time off due to various factors. Posture and static assessment: reveals that Bee is looking to reduce her condition score which inevitably will occur with increased workload. Shod in front and barefoot behind. Foot balance looks good. Posture shows increased pectoral use and dropped thoracic sling, bracing of the right and left forelimbs is shown through tense cutaneous omobrachialis muscle. Bilateral musculature is braced and reducing retro-mandibular space. Long head triceps bilaterally palpated, more so right. Elevated head carriage due to tense rhomboidius and excess use of nuchal ligament. This is inverting thoracic posture and causing hypotrophy under the saddle region. To compensate, tension is held through extended pelvic posture with hypertonic bands. Increased barrel swing left, fixed right hand side. Gait assessment – Straight moving limbs and travel on 2 tracks. Right hindlimb showed reduced muscle mass in quadriceps and stifle/hock flexors. Left hindlimb moves medially in flight and lands with lateral loading pattern. Forelimbs straight in walk, in trot show some carpal lateral circumduction – possibly due to decreased limb protraction. Hindlmbs track up. On the tight turns, stilted with hindlimbs at first, better right than left even following session. Foot placement 2/3, foot height 2/3 and rhythm 2/3. [] Exercises [] [] [][] [][]