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DR. RICK BOATRIGHT, CHIROPRACTOR
• Chiropractor since 1988
• Certified in VOM, a horse adjusting technique, since 1998
• Other than my regular human practice, I work mainly with horses and dogs.
• I’ve also done mules, llamas, alpacas, goats, cats, pot bellied pigs and even chickens.
• Thanks for inviting me!
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Horses give us clues about their health.
EVALUATING YOUR HORSE’S SKELETAL
FRAME
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• If you have any questions or comments as we go, please feel free to raise your hand.
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WE’RE OFTEN THE RESOURCE OF LAST RESORT
• Quite often, owners have consulted a vet before they call me.
• Occasionally, the vet has even told the owner to put the animal down.
• But there are lots of animals running around today that would have otherwise been euthanized, horses and dogs alike.
• Even so, always make sure your vet knows what’s going on with your animals’ health, just to be sure.
• That being said:
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“READING” BODIES• People watchers say things like,
“Look at the curves on that gal,” or “Look at the shoulders on that guy.”
• Chiropractors are a weird bunch.
• When they watch people, you hear things like, “Look at that high hip on the right!” or “His head’s really forward,” or “Look at those uneven shoulders!”
• Chiropractors can see skeletal health challenges from across a parking lot!
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WATCHING HORSES• Chiropractors that are trained and
certified to work with horses are similar.
• While other people might look at a horse’s natural lines and appearance, the trained doctor is looking at specific clues in the horse’s skeletal frame that tell us volumes about its health.
• This is important because if a horse has skeletal problems, it’s also a potential danger to the rider.
• Let’s take a look at some of the clues you’ll want to watch for.
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WITH THE HORSE WALKING AWAY,
(ON A HACKAMORE WITHOUT A BIT)• On a FLAT, EVEN surface, first look at the croup.
• With each step, the croup will tend to rise a little higher one side.
• Then it shifts to the other side when the horse shifts its weight to the other hind foot.
• The croup should rise evenly from side to side.
• When one croup consistently rises higher than the other, it can indicate misalignments in the lumbar spine, the sacrum or the pelvis. *
• Saddles tend to slide or roll toward the low side when you see this. *
• That can even cause low back challenges for the rider!
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TRANSFER TO THE RIDER
• When the horse’s body is altered under the rider, a certain amount of stress is transferred to the rider.
• This illustration shows how a high right croup,
• It transfers a tilt to the riders hips,
• And causes a “kink’ in the rider’s low back.
• Over time, this can cause low back pains, or even disc problems for the rider.
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STILL WALKING AWAY• Look closely at the horse’s hind legs.
• Figure A is ideal.
• In figure B the feet splay out.
• In C, the hocks are too close and the lower legs splay out.
• In D, the horse is pigeon-toed
• In E, the stance is too narrow, in F, too wide.
• These variations can be genetic, can indicate hoof shaping discrepancies, or can be misalignments in the lumbar spine, the sacrum or the pelvis.
• These variations also make your horse (and you) vulnerable to injuries.
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KICKING UP DIRT
• Watch the horse’s hind feet as it walks away. See if it drags a hoof, kicking up dust.
• Sometimes, this can be just a lazy walk.
• But it can also indicate misalignments in the lumbar spine, the sacrum or the pelvis.
• Especially if the behavior is new or if it’s more pronounced than normal.
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NECK ALIGNMENT FROM BEHIND
• You’ll also want to see how the horse’s head and neck align with its body.
• From behind, as it walks away, line up the dock (base of the tail) with the center of the withers.
• Extend the line forward to the poll.
• If the poll is consistently off to one side, it usually indicates a misalignment in the neck.
• Misalignments in the neck can also cause problems in the front legs and/or feet, so this is important.
• Weak front legs can be a disaster if the horse tumbles forward with the rider.
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OUT OF CURIOSITY• How many of you plan to use
this information to evaluate your own horse periodically?
• You should do this at least twice a year.
• How many plan to use this information the next time you buy a horse?
• This evaluation can help you make the best equine selections AND get the best price!
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WALKING TOWARD YOU• Look at the legs from the front.
• The knees and feet should be directly under the center of the shoulders, like figure A.
• B has splayed feet.
• C is pigeon toed.
• D is knock kneed, narrow front with a wide base.
• E has a narrow base.
• F is bow-kneed.
• F is likely genetic. B and C can be genetic, but can also be the result of misalignments in the neck, withers or the legs themselves. D and E can often be addressed by a good farrier.
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KICKING UP DIRT
• Watch the horse’s front feet as it walks toward you. See if it drags a hoof, kicking up dust.
• Doing this with the front feet is seldom just a lazy thing. It’s more significant than dragging a rear foot.
• It can indicate misalignments in the neck or withers that’s serious enough to be altering function.
• This horse can be prone to tripping.
• The earlier you have this addressed, the better.
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LOOKING FROM THE SIDE• The front legs should be straight from the
shoulder to the fetlock. (A)
• D is “calf kneed” (bent backward) with a short pastern.
• E is “buck kneed” with the carpus (knee) over the hoof.
• F is “tied in” with a thin, fine cannon bone.
• C is “coon footed” with a long pastern while in B the pastern is too short and straight. These can be helped or irritated by the way your horse is shod.
• Always make sure you have a GOOD farrier!
• Feet problems cause spinal problems and that can be a threat to the horse AND the rider, both.
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LOOKING FROM THE SIDE• The hind legs are more tricky from the
side because the horse moves.
• A is the ideal conformation
• B is “sickle-hocked” or “too much set.”
• C is “post legged” or “coon footed.”
• D “stands under” or is “cramped under,” (often protecting from back pain).
• These variations can be genetic or they can indicate misalignments in the lumbar spine, the sacrum or the pelvis.
• Variations from normal always represent a vulnerability to injury for both the horse and the rider.
A B C D
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LOOKING FROM THE SIDE
• Look at the horse’s mane. Does it split with part of it going to the opposite side of the neck?
• Sometimes this can indicate a misalignment in the neck, usually at the level where it splits.
• This is particularly true when it is chronic, always splitting and always at the same place, and/or when your horse resists turning the neck to one side. (Either side)
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THE JAW• Looking at the jaw is a very subtle
observation. With a “TMJ” the bottom teeth can be slightly off to one side or it can be too subtle to see at all.
• A person simply has to learn how to feel it at the top of the jaw bone.
• This is often the cause of “cribbing,” when a horse habitually “chews” a fence or a manger.
• The horse is biting and pulling at something, doing what it can do, instinctively, trying and fix the misalignment at the jaw.
• Adjusting the jaw is a simple procedure.
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WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?• Identifying these variations won’t tell
you for sure that your horse does have misalignments, but they do tell you that something isn’t right.
• Often there ARE misalignments involved, either causing the variations or as a result of the variations.
• To know for sure, consult a doctor that’s certified with in Equine Chiropractic.
• The doctor can identify exactly where misalignments are either by feel or by a reflex phenomenon called a “penniculus response.”
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THE PENNICULUS RESPONSE• A penniculus response in an animal is
like a knee-jerk response in a human.
• A quick impulse on a horse’s joint or spinal segment that’s misaligned will cause a reflex, telling the doctor that a correction needs to take place at that joint or vertebra.
• Corrections can be made either by traditional hand manipulation or with a super-fast thrust from an adjusting instrument like this Activator or with an electrically operated thrusting instrument.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT ADJUSTING• We all like to think that chiropractors
“pop a joint or vertebra back into place.” But it just ain’t so!
• Even though that’s what we all thought for nearly 100 years, science has shown that what’s actually happening is a communication sequence that occurs in the tendons, ligaments and other tissues around the joint (connective tissues).
• Misalignments are the result of inappropriate communication in these connective tissues.
• High-speed, directional impulses can restore and correct the communication in the connective tissue allowing the joint to normalize and eventually stabilize.
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THE TRUTH ABOUT ADJUSTING• When correct connective tissue
communication is restored, the body tends to normalize on its own.
• Several “adjustments” are often necessary to stabilize the correction.
• It’s like going to the gym. It requires repetition to retrain body structures.
• Directional stimulation is the key to making the corrections.
• This is why both massage and adjusting tend to produce benefits, at least temporarily.
• Speed accelerates the long-term effectiveness of the directional stimulus.
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ADJUSTMENTS• Massage is slow, and while it relaxes muscles,
the stimulus isn’t fast enough to correct skeletal misalignments.
• Adjustments by hand are quick enough to make the corrections.
• Adjustments with an instrument are extremely fast and thus deliver the same amount of work in pounds per square inch, but in a much more controlled way.
• How’s that possible? Weight X speed = work
• It’s like pushing a nail into a board with your hand compared to pounding it into the board with a hammer.
• I’ve put many a rider back on a horse and I’ve prevented many a horse from being put down using an Activator to adjust them.
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LASER THERAPY• At the end of every equine adjustment
I do, I apply a low level laser therapy.
• The laser accelerates healing, helps the adjustments hold better and stabilizes the corrections sooner.
• When we do a laser therapy alone on people, it’s $40.
• When we do a laser after an adjustment on people, it’s and extra $15.
• But we just include the laser in the regular adjustment price for horses.
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WE OFFER SCREENINGS• Looking for better performance?
• Think your horse might have problems?
• We do on-site screenings at your location, evaluating all of what you’ve seen today.
• We’ll screen one horse, a dozen or more.
• Screenings are $25 per horse. If we find that your horse needs adjusting, we’ll apply that $25 toward the $75 charge for the adjustment.
• If we find a horse is fine and needs no adjustment, we’ll issue you a Certificate of Chiropractic Skeletal Soundness for that date.
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WHAT IS INVOLVED WITH AN ADJUSTMENT?
• We check everything you’ve seen so far, plus the ranges of motion in the neck.
• We start adjusting at the poll,
• Work our way down the neck,
• Check the withers and mid-back, including the ribs,
• Do the lumbar spine,
• The sacrum and the pelvis,
• Then we check the hind legs,
• The shoulders and front legs and finish up by checking the jaw.
• We work with the whole equine skeleton, not just the spine.
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MULTIPLE ADJUSTMENTS• We can adjust people, dogs and horses all in
one single, on-site visit.
• We need to know ahead of time if we’re going to adjust people so we can bring our portable adjusting table.
• Equine adjustments are $75, laser is included.
• A first adjustment for a human is $65 and the first laser treatment is included. Subsequent on-site adjustments are $45, laser is an extra $15.
• We adjust dogs for $45, laser is included.
• If we do at least three adjustments in any combination of horses, humans and dogs, all adjustments on that visit are 10% off.
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RESOURCE MATERIAL AVAILABLE
• We have brochures and business cards available for you here.
• Feel free to take what you like.
• Please take at least three cards – one for yourself and two to give to friends who own horses.
• For extra copies of your booklet, give us a call or leave your name and number with Linda or Alexis.
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THANK YOU KINDLY!• Thank you so much for the
opportunity to speak with you today.
• I hope we’ve given you some new information.
• Thank you for your feedback. I often learn as much as I teach.
• I hope you can use this information to your advantage and to your horses’ advantage over the months and years to come!
• And , please, tell a fellow horse owner about Equine Chiropractic!