“Ten Benefits Of Stretching Your Horse”
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About This Episode
“Ten Benefits Of Stretching Your Horse”
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“Ten Benefits Of Stretching Your Horse”
1 – Relationship with your horse (How does stretching improve your relationship with your horse)
– Treats
– Positive experience
– Feels good
2 -Works on Fascia (How does stretching influence the fascia and what is fascia?)
– Explain fascia – full of proprioceptors, collagen microtubules
– Hydration
– Freedom to glide
– Freedom to support effectively
– Reduce pain/nociceptors in the fascia – reset the receptors
– Reduce adhesions and ensure appropriate alignment of the fascia
3 – Proprioception
– What is Proprioception?
– Why is Proprioception important?
– Where are proprioceptors in the body that we are influencing with stretching?
4 – Flexibility and Range of Motion (How does stretching improve flexibility and range of motion)
– Joints
– Dynamic stretching
– Fascia
5 – Strength (How does stretching improve the strength of your horse?)
– Fascial freedom to ensure muscles can work effectively
– Strength at stretch
– Weight bearing limbs- Isometric contractions
6 – Symmetry (How can stretching influence symmetry of your horse and why is this important?)
– Horse will always have a stiffer side or perhaps stiff/hollow
– hoof balance
– Post injury
– Rehab
– Contribution to mental balance
7 – Relives pain (How stretching relive pain in horses?)
– Fascia
– Alters feedback
– Reduces restrictions
– Through improving all of the above
8 – Enhance-performance and reduce injury risk (How can stretching enhance performance and reduce injury risk?)
– Muscles and joints able to work effectively
– Improve quality and efficiency of biomechanics
– Reduce Fatigue
– Reduce post exercise stiffness – Aid in recovery
– More balanced in the body and mind
9 – Reduce body work (How does this work with different body worker
– Benefit of stretching just a couple of times a week
– Especially after harder work
– Get more out of the body work sessions
10 – Overall improved health and welfare
– Mental – relaxation
– Physical
– Physiological
– Organ function/feedback loops – fascia
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