The Biomechanic Vet Physio

 Why did I become a vet physio?   Money.   The end.   I joke of course!   … You can’t make money working with animals :’) Becoming a vet physio wasn’t a long-term game plan of mine.   To be honest, I’ve never had a long-term game plan, I still don’t!   I remember the idea first came to my head when I was working as a groom.   I was working on a private, high-end eventing yard in the Cotswolds.   I was well paid, had accommodation included, and the workload was perfectly manageable (most of the time).   Then, one day I had a sudden realisation that my grooming career had potentially peaked.   I wouldn’t have minded, but I was 24, I couldn’t be at the height yet?   Plus, I had been a groom for over 5 years at this point, and although I loved it, I didn’t love the idea of doing it forever.   I’ll write a blog in due course about why that is … it’ll be a long one!   I’...

I imagine this is something we’ve all heard when we were taught to ride and handle horses …   ‘Don’t let him do that, he’s just being naughty!’ Nowadays almost everyone will say ‘there’s no such thing as a naughty horse, only a horse who’s in pain’   Which I don’t entirely agree with …   The new thinking now seems to be that every horse is in some degree of pain or has some kind of trauma which is causing them to act a certain way.   Obviously, this is the case with some horses & absolutely must be addressed and treated with care and consideration.   But I honestly believe that there are plenty of horses who are not in pain, but are potentially confused, unfit, scared, or simply not in the mood! I tend to find that the concept of a horse ‘not wanting’ to do something seems to unsettle some   There seems to be the thought that horses are always willing & eager to please   Yet, there is also the well-known fact tha...