Re: RideCamp: girthy horse

["C.M.Newell" <reshan@deyr.ultranet.com>]

At 10:29 AM 2/23/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Sorry, I'm a bit more confused now... I'll be the first to admit that I
>don't have much knowledge of the horse's anatomy, especially the
>vertebrae described. You say that it is possible that the discomfort
>caused by the farrier was relieved, but that there is no way that a
>thoracic vertebrae could be pulled out of alignment or replaced by such
>a maneuver. So, is there something else in this area that could be
>misaligned or out of place? 


Muscles. Muscles in spasm. And our resident Rolfer would probably add other
soft tissue structures to that.
			--CMNewell, DVM




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