How Muscle Reconstrution Therapy Works
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A thoroughbred hunter suffered from intermittent lameness in his left front leg. He had no swing in his hips, tail and sacrum areas, was sound to the right and lame to the left. Although the vet had blocked the foot and the horse came up sound, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with the foot itself. The owner/trainer believed the problem lay in the left shoulder.Calling upon her years of observation and experience, Cindy held the left front heel bulb and felt a “pin fire” – a nerve pulse or electrical charge. She realized that the horse experienced this nerve reaction each time he stepped a certain way. Through a series of compressions involving heel, left shoulder and knee, she worked with this rotational injury, triggering the left front quadrant to release the tension. This in turn released the pressure on the nerve.Next, she worked with foot, knee and shoulder blade in range of motion and compression efforts. Then she ran her hands along the spine feeling for the connection between the hind end and front end. She discovered that the left sacral area needed to be released. Since the left front shoulder was frozen, causing the left hind to compensate by twisting, she went to work in the left hind foot.The result of the work that day and in subsequent sessions focused primarily on the hind end, taking more pressure off and allowing the left front to move more soundly. While working on the left hamstring connection from the hock to the point of buttock she heard a pop in the left sacral/hip area. He went sound on the lunge line to the left that night.Who would have thought the left front lameness resulted from the left hind’s inability to do its job? Other than the restriction of the hip’s movement, the footfall and hind end engagement on both sides was even from a visual perspective. This kept everyone involved from seeing that the problem was in the horse’s hind end.Horse
Savvy
Ranch
Cindy Schleuss, Owner
(707) 789-9947
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