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An owner had a horse that was acting up and they were going to send it to a trainer. But is it really a training problem? Or is it the horse trying to tell them that they're in pain?

We've been taught that if the horse doesn't want to canter to the left or the right or doesn't, want to do a certain thing in their body is that they're being stubborn on purpose, or it's a weakness. I remember training horses and it didn't want to canter to the right.  I was told, well it's just weak on that side. So you make them do three times as many circles to the right as to the left, when actually it's because the right shoulder can't move correctly and the horses in its own way saying.  “I don't want to go that way.”

If you're looking at horse language, and you brush them somewhere and they pin their ears, that's an area of pain. If you put a saddle blanket on and they're pinning their ears and shivering their withers that's letting you know that ribs and withers are not in perfect alignment. And muscles when they over tighten, create spasms. Then they pull bones too close together. 

So it's a lot easier and cheaper if we can start listening to the horses at a younger age. Is it a stubborn behavioral issue, or is there something uncomfortable in the body and they don't want to do it that way?  If you start looking at the hooves of the horse, you're going to see four hooves out of balance.

 That tells me the inner muscles, pectorals, inside your psoaz, and your hocks are over tight, not allowing the joint to move correctly. And then we create extra stress by keep asking the horse to do the same thing that's already creating pain in the first place. 

So if the right shoulder, and the right hip can't move correctly, they have to borrow extra from the left side to try and do that. 

That's what creates your chiropractic issues. But most chiropractors just come and fix the withers and the spine and the hips and don't look for the cause. 

 When you do my program, which is everything from teeth to tail.

There are no big words like, “medial laterally rotated.”  I just say if it if you push here, and the horse is reactive, this is how you fix it and we go through the whole horse from nose to tail, and hoof up.

 And the testimonials I get just really warms my heart.

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