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14.11.2022 Jan and Rebel (30)

By Sue Palmer on November 14, 2022

A Guest Blog By Jan Daley Winter. Horse-girls’ least favourite season. Mud. Driving rain. Biting damp wind and dark afternoons. It had been my plan during the winter of 2020-2021 to hire an indoor school to keep Rebel working over winter, and give myself some much-needed motivation to get out of bed and keep active. […]

12.11.2022 Why Is She Yawning?

By Sue Palmer on November 12, 2022

The answer is, we don’t really know. But answering a client who asked this recently, I talked about how the horse’s self mobilisation of the hyoid bone, and her self mobilisation of the jaw, could be leading to a release of tension. I have looked up the science of why we yawn (as humans), and […]

11.11.2022 In Remembrance Of Those We Love

By Sue Palmer on November 11, 2022

In Flanders Fields By John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were […]

30.10.2022 Do You Need A Reminder To Slow Down?

By Sue Palmer on October 30, 2022

It’s 8.30pm, and I’m still at my computer. I’ve been up since 5.45am, and I’ve driven to a yard an hour and a half away to treat five horses. I’ve written three blogs, filled in a form from RAMP (the Register of Animal Musculoskeletal Practitioners), a form from ACPAT (the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in […]

29.10.2022 Finding The Right Help

By Sue Palmer on October 29, 2022

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It can be a minefield trying to find the right help for you and your horse, and I’ve written […]

28.10.2022 Flowers from a Friend

By Sue Palmer on October 28, 2022

Community is key. Without community, what do we have? We are wired for relationships. The word ‘relationship’ has come to be linked to being in a couple, in a partnership. But we are surrounded by relationships – with our family, our friends, our work colleagues. Our horses, our dogs, our cats, our pets. The person […]

27.10.2022 Excerpt from ‘Understanding Horse Performance: Brain, Pain or Training?’

By Sue Palmer on October 27, 2022

Chapter 12: Does your horse score 10/10 for comfort? “For centuries, humans have said to horses ‘You do what I tell you or I’ll hurt you.’ Humans still say that to each other – still threaten, force and intimidate… At heart, I’m saying that no one else has the right to say ‘you must’ to […]

26.10.2022 Do You Know Someone Who Shouts At Their Horse?

By Sue Palmer on October 26, 2022

This photo was taken at work, during a treatment session. I feel as though I get as much from the horses as they get from me. The atmosphere during a treatment session is generally calm and relaxed because I believe that is the best environment for healing to happen. When a horse is stressed, in […]

25.10.2022 Describe a Typical Working Day

By Sue Palmer on October 25, 2022

I was recently asked to describe a typical working day… I drop my son to school, and then travel to a yard to treat horses. I usually treat between 4 and 6 horses in a day, depending on how long the travel time is. Some horses I treat at their yard, others travel to a […]

24.10.2022 Biomechanical motion analysis in horses during orthopaedic rehabilitation

By Sue Palmer on October 24, 2022

Report from the IAVRPT conference 2022 To find out more about the International Association of Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, and to sign up for the 2024 conference in Cape Town, click here. Title: Biomechanical motion analysis in horses during orthopaedic rehabilitation Presenter: Dr Maria Terese Engell (NO) Therese is a specialist in equine and […]

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