Is Your Horse in Pain? Does your horse need a treatment? It need not be a crashing fall that means your horse needs a treatment, sometimes you just know something isn't quite right. These are some of the reasons that horse owners have contacted Annemarie. It's by no means exhaustive, and many people contact her for a general MOT or check up, but it will give you a good idea of the various ways horses may show they are in pain or uncomfortable, and would therefore benefit from a treatment.
Inability to strike off on one particular leg in canter or changing leg in canter or becoming disunited Your horse might have a rolling gait Difficulty bending on one rein Hollowing through the back and reluctance to work through his back Your horse may start bucking for no reason Your horse may be short strided Your horse may be not fully engaging and throwing you to one side High head carriage and hollowing Your horse may just be feeling under the weather and you just don't know why Your horse might not be able to bend on one rein Your horse's behaviour might change for an unexplained reason Your horse might find it difficult to go long and low Your horse might start refusing jumps for no apparent reason Your horse might start finding lateral work difficult Has your horse started moving away whilst being groomed or tacked Developed an unwillingness to move forward Seems unbalanced walking up or down hill Difficulty in backing up Change in normal habits ie., not lying down to sleep or quiet in stable