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What Is The Therapist’s Aim?…Ultimately the therapist’s aim is to achieve a supple musculature allowing the horse to work in comfort and balance, whether that be in dressage, show jumping, eventing, polo or racing. Sixty percent of a horse’s body weight is muscle, so it is little wonder that muscular problems cause a variety of motion problems and training setbacks. There are many who are quick to accuse a horse of being un-genuine and un-cooperative when they are actually in pain and discomfort. This is often the result of over compensation, relying on other muscles to take on extra work, which in turn strains their associated joints and ligaments creating adverse knock on effects throughout the body’s system.
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