Description
Gillian Higgins, Stephanie Martin160 pagesThis book helps to understand the fundamentals of locomotion in the horse to better utilize its potential and improve its performance while ensuring its well-being. By painting the musculoskeletal system directly on the living horse, the author explains how the joint action of bones and muscles generates locomotion. These illustrations, which reveal what actually happens when the horse moves, show how proper horsemanship and workmanship improve the horse's physical condition, strength, and balance.- Part I, which focuses on technical aspects, introduces the reader to the various components of the horse's musculoskeletal system.- Part II explores practical aspects, from how the horse bends and jumps to how it uses its limbs and maintains a correct stance. Understanding these essential mechanisms can help improve riding, training and locomotion assessment techniques, as well as the horse's performance and the quality of the rider's care.- Part 3 explains how to give your horse more freedom of movement. This section offers many practical tips on how to maintain the horse's musculature in an optimal way, as well as practical exercises and stretches to increase suppleness, confidence and complicity between horse and rider, and to reduce the risk of injury.
