To re-cap from our last news page, the race day was a huge success. BSET staff and clients associated with N.E.R.C enjoyed a great day of racing. Time was spent in the parade ring, some went to the starting gates to see the power of the start, all enjoyed a huge lunch and challenged the tote, winning a bet or two.

As for our Rehab horses – Queen is doing really well, her tendon has shown huge improvement. Sherri has worked hard on her pecs and shoulders, changing the flight pattern of her affected leg. We have pulled her shoes and she is settling in well with her new paddock of friends. The first day I turned her out in a large camp I watched her free movement carefully – very limited range of movement thru shoulder and front legs, and no flexion of lumbar sacrum.  Once this is improved there will be less stress on her tendon.
Silver has shown great improvement. We are free lunging her daily, trying to release her lumbar sacrum – she is still trotting like she has a carrot up her bum. I worked on her this and achieved full releases on both illiopsoas. She is building good muscle on top line, but tighter than I would like, so have started with b12 injections down lumbar sacrum.

Our big Dutch Warmblood showjumper has shown fantastic improvement in his movement.  If I can figure out how to edit my video cds, I’ll get him on to you tube – my skills are in healing horses, not in technology.

We had an Event horse arrive this week, who we’ve called T-man. He has been critisized in the dressage ring for unevenness behind. His rider is also concerned with his tripping. Dom our farrier has been a huge help with his feet.  I’m starting to think his back problems stem partly from his corns and bad angles. Leigh has found him interesting because he finds it easy to work long and low but battles to engage and work honestly from behind. The lumbar sacrum is unable to flex correctly.

The other day I was called out to a polo yard, to access a pony that had slipped badly in the camp.  Within a month her entire near hindquarter had atrophied.   We are treating her daily with the Transeva and the laser and she is in a light work programme to help build up her wasted glute.

Another exciting arrival in the yard has been a race horse that fell over in the horse box and fractured his pelvis. He is with us for a while and in full box rest. He gets a full light work over with the transeva and we are using the laser over the fracture. I have put in a photo of the students and Dr Johnny Cave who scanned his pelvis on arrival.

We also had two polo ponies come in for a weeks treatment, as they are preparing for the Plettenberg Bay polo season.

The last of our arrivals this week is another lovely big showjumper. He has had an on and off lameness in his off fore. I’ll get back to you with his assessment and our plan to improvement.

 The students are preparing their last few presentations and projects and starting to review their work to get ready for their exams. We had a fantastic day today in the field, will write about it soon, but just have to say I’m So Lucky to have such an awesome job ….will explain sometime
Thanks for reading,

Beth