RE: club foot - thanks

["Kathy Mayeda" <Kathy_Mayeda@atce.com>]

If you have a chance, get Diana Thompson to help you with your balance issues.  I don't think I would be able to compete on Beau if I didn't have Diana to set me on the right track during an evaluation.  My horse has the a clubbish foot that required the opposite front foot to be shimmed.  He also required chiropractic and good dental work to help him maintain his balance. I pleasure rode both my horses for a couple of years until I found out at a Centered Riding clinic that both of my horses were traveling uneven.  That was three years ago - and those sessions totally changed my life, believe it or not.  With the Centered Riding clinic - you start asking questions like - am I riding crooked because my horse is crooked, or is my horse crooked because I ride crooked?

 

All this stuff, Diana will make recommendations on which way to go for your particular case. 

 

He became a saddle fit nightmare and I ended up getting a ReactorPanel saddle because of this.  But if you address saddle fit with Diana, she'll look at your current saddles and experiment with shims and padding to level your saddle in a cost-effective way.

 

It did cost $$$. Not so much Diana's time, but the team of experts that you hire after her session!  (That is why it is important to look at these things before you buy a horse! - but like me, you already have a horse.)  But it was well worth it and I learned a lot about horses because of these issues.

 

If you can't get together with Diana, please feel free to e-mail me privately with questions.  I do have an Equine Bodyworker Certificate that I obtained because I am totally interested in helping horses maintaining balance.

 

http://www.dianathompson.com/dth.priv.les.html

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: vvarney [mailto:vvarney@megalink.net]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 8:48 AM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: club foot - thanks

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to help me with this new horses club foot.

I really do appreciate the information you have all shared and I did go back into the archives to dig out even more. I am much more comfortable with managing this now.

 

This horse also has a white hair pattern on his back pretty much following the whole tree only on the side opposite the club.

I don't know what to think of that.

I am wondering if he has been uneven and because of that has caused saddle/rider unbalance?

Maybe his saddle was crooked?

How can I figure this out?

 

Thanks for the help. I love having all the great horsy minds to explore!

 

Vicki